"I can again thy former light restore, Should……" — William Shakespeare
"I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the…
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not…
— Leo Tolstoy
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