"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

Shakespeare, William on ambition   

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

Shakespeare, William on ambition
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"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

Shakespeare, William on futility
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"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

Shakespeare, William on agents
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"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

Shakespeare, William on murder
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"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on fools and foolishness
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"I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad."

Shakespeare, William on happiness
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"There is a history in all men's lives."

Shakespeare, William on history and historians
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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

Shakespeare, William on honesty   

"We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them."

Shakespeare, William on modesty
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"Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."

Shakespeare, William on modesty
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

Shakespeare, William on argument
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"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale."

Shakespeare, William on life
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"He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo."

Shakespeare, William on kisses and kissing
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on insanity
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"There is no darkness, but ignorance."

Shakespeare, William on ignorance
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"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Shakespeare, William on hope
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"Men's faults to themselves seldom appear."

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

Dumas, Alexandre on doubt
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"Doubt is the father of invention."

Galilei, Galileo on doubt
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"Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on envy
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"Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of."

Fielding, Henry on envy   

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

Gracian, Baltasar on envy
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"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on envy
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."

Disraeli, Benjamin on doubt
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"Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent."

Shakespeare, William on fame
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

Shakespeare, William on excuses
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"When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness."

Shakespeare, William on excellence   

"There's small choice in rotten apples."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Shakespeare, William on envy
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"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

Akhenaton on doubt
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"Words pay no debts."

Shakespeare, William on debt
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"All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession."

Hogarth, William on envy   

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doubt
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"Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them."

Vidal, Gore on writers and writing
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