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Substance Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy…
- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
- By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
- Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if…
- The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
- No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here;
- O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening…
- Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.
- True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance…
- What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you,…
- Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
- Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
- Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you.
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- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
- Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. — Abraham Cahan
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- The only substance properly so called is the soul. — Henri Frederic Amiel