"To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty."

Shakespeare, William on obesity   

"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!"

Shakespeare, William on opportunity   

"One pain is lessened by another's anguish."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"Pain pays the income of each precious thing."

Shakespeare, William on pain
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"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done."

Shakespeare, William on past
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"We have seen better days."

Shakespeare, William on past   

"What is past is prologue."

Shakespeare, William on past   

"Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]"

Shakespeare, William on patience
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"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."

Shakespeare, William on perseverance
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"For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently."

Shakespeare, William on philosophers and philosophy   

"The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]"

Shakespeare, William on art
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"This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!"

Shakespeare, William on astrology   

"These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are."

Shakespeare, William on astronomy
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"Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not."

Shakespeare, William on politics
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"A politician is one that would circumvent God."

Shakespeare, William on politics
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"I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air."

Shakespeare, William on pollution   

"Every good servant does not all commands."

Shakespeare, William on obedience   

"Remembrance of things past."

Shakespeare, William on nostalgia   

"We were not born to sue, but to command."

Shakespeare, William on negotiation   

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad."

Shakespeare, William on madness
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"The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

Shakespeare, William on marriage   

"Report me and my cause aright."

Shakespeare, William on media   

"By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."

Shakespeare, William on medicine
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"'Tis the mind that makes the body rich."

Shakespeare, William on mind
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"He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him."

Shakespeare, William on women
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

Shakespeare, William on misers and misery   

"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on."

Shakespeare, William on misfortunes
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"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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"A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."

Shakespeare, William on money
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"If music be the food of love; play on."

Shakespeare, William on music
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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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"Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]"

Shakespeare, William on necessity
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite"

Shakespeare, William on possibilities
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"Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be."

Shakespeare, William on potential
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"O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"

Shakespeare, William on poverty and the poor   

"It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

West, Mae on laughter
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