"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other wayin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. "

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. His acts being seven ages."

Shakespeare, William on world
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"This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit."

Shakespeare, William on lust
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"Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done."

Shakespeare, William on appreciation
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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?"

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Shakespeare, William on names
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"Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, home art gone and taken thy wages."

Shakespeare, William on retirement   

"To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on questions
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"Beware of the ides of March."

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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Shakespeare, William on self-respect
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"The evil that men do, lives on; the good, often interred with their bones. "

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