William Shakespeare Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Patterns Quotes

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

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But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

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what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

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Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.

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We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

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He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

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Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.

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I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

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in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed.

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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

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Never anger made good guard for itself.

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The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

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But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast, And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

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