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"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be."
"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."
"Make use of time, let not advantage slip."
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
"April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
"From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."
"So many horrid Ghosts."
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
"My soul is in the sky."
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
"To do a great right do a little wrong."
"The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night."
"These violent delights have violent ends."
"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"