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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
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William Shakespeare
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
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Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
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Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
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Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
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See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
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So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
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Strong reasons make strong actions.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
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The sands are number'd that make up my life.
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The soul of this man is in his clothes.
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The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute.
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William Shakespeare
Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
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Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with.
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Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
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Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
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We are advertis'd by our loving friends.
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We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
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We know what we are, but not what we may be.
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When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
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