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1667 Playwright Quotes

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold

Age Cram Day He
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ambition Does Man Would
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Appeal Autumn Best Decay
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Count Just Life Soul
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Loved LovedOne Never Place
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Age Crystal Deemed Dew
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Eight Fellow Girl Him
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet

Arms Burn Cheeks Clutch
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

About Beauty Best Else
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!

Careless Could Each Fine
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Bad Being Black Business
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there

April England Now Oh
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It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Art Glory Good Least
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Changes Earth God Soul
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No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Begins Fight Himself Man
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do

Does Him Man Tis
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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Age Death Dream Face
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Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Character Faith Fear Hope
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin

Ignorance Innocence Sin
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God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

God Justice Never Prove
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Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

Casts Height Measure Mind
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength

Breaks Land Loaded Sea
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Discern Finite Hearts Infinite
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

Before Bent Carve Ever
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Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

Away How How Much Less Little
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Alone Beast Distinctive Finds
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Am Asleep Fall I Am
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Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

Every Late Rome Round
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All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves

Bound June Leaves Now
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Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Art Day Earth Else
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Aim Better Failed God
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Beneath Foot His Make
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Aim Fate Great Leave
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

End Even Fight Forgotten
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Autumn Beauty End Garner
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought

Sudden Thought
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

Broken Earth Heaven Perfect
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again

Again Baffled Begin Dry
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never Be bullied Silence A victim
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If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

You deny Yourself commitment Life
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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Fun Play someone Think
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You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Got offered Romantic leads Role
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What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change.

What looks Absolutely fabulous Rehearsal Audience
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The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

The world Interesting things
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Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

Time Tell us We did
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You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

Really Love Theater Unmerciful life
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My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Play safe Sex Picked Untrue
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There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.

Times Take role Perceived Certain way
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And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.
Believe Never be Limited You do
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I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Actually may Musical Star in My concert
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