William Shakespeare Quotes (page 6)

1564–1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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topics
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“Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.”
Cooperation
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“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”
Agents
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“Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.”
Fame
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“Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.”
Company
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“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”
Publicity
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“The first thing we do, lets kill the lawyers. [Henry Iv]”
Law and Lawyers
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“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”
Danger
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“I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.”
Death and Dying
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“He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.”
Flattery
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“Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.”
Knowledge
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“There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.”
Praise
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“Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
Potential
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“'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.”
Idols
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“All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
Death and Dying
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“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]”
Insanity
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“You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.”
Unemployment
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“What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]”
Heart
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“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”
Age and Aging
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“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”
Greatness
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“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
Cosmetics
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“She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”
Love Ended
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“When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.”
Valor
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“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”
Fear
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“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.”
Explanations
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“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
Honesty
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“Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.”
Regret
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“There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.”
Vanity
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