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"90 William Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings

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Born: April 1564. Died: 23 April 1616 | Writer | Poet |
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Destiny Hold Our Stars
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Boy Flies Gods Sport
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This above all; to thine own self be true.

Above Own Self Thine
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Boats Brings Fortune Some
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Alteration Finds Love Alters
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Robbed Smiles Something Steals
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity Course Embrace Wise
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Another Face Given God
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Doth Now Time Waste
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Content Crown Enjoy Kings
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Few Love None Trust
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Day False Follow Man
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Fire Kindle Love Quench
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Cite Devil Purpose Scripture
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Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity Soul Wit
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Bad Either Good Makes
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

Deadly Rather Death Self
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Death Desired Hurts Lover
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Child Father Knows Own
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The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
Heaven One Love Makes
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Concord Fit Hath Himself
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Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Being Every Turns Wild
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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Eat Fishes Little Great
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Battalions Come Single Sorrows
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Dangerous Doth Loving Most
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Kindness Looks Love Shall
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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Covetousness Desire Having Sin
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Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Law Make Wills They
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Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

After Desert Every Man
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Badge Mercy Sweet True
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Company Himself Most Out
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Lender Borrower Neither Nor
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

After Bones Evil Good
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire Many Years Outlive
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Answer Bound Please Thee
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My pride fell with my fortunes.

Fell Fortunes Pride
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I will praise any man that will praise me.

Any Man Praise Will
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Now Prepare Shed Tears
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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Grain Grow Look Seeds
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William Shakespeare Quotes & Sayings