William Shakespeare Quotes, Gold Quotes, Excess Quotes

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

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For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

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Women's weapons, water-drops.

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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

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Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

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May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

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My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

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Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

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Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

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It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

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Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

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Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.

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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

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Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.

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