Antony-and-cleopatra Quote by William Shakespeare

“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.”

— William Shakespeare

“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“So tractable, so peaceable are these people that I swear to your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation. They love…

— Christopher Columbus

“We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this…

— June Strong

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“nature I must take my place among the most sinful. I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not…

— Ben Jonson

“Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your…

— Wendy Higgins Sweet Reckoning

“What pleases is what is terrible, gentle, and poetic.”

— Georges Franju

“...what I appear, a sick and poor man, is not the worst of me. I am in a chaos of principles--groping in the dark--acting…

— Thomas Hardy