"He that dies this year is quit for the next."
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William Shakespeare quotes (page 172 of 202)
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"A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion-- To pray for them that have done scathe to us."
"The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind."
"Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's."
"Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity."
"Good reasons must of force give place to better."
"Love reasons without reason."
"All pride is willing pride."
"See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced."
"See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!"
"Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!"
"When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams."
"The sun with one eye vieweth all the world."
"Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty."
"Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky."
"I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent."
"When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
"Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it, And therefore frame the law unto my will."
"Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name."
"I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin."