"We wound our modesty and make foul the……" — William Shakespeare
"We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare has 3,182 quotes on this site.
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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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More Clearness Quotes
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept…
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
— Charles Dickens
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of…
— Hippocrates
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning…
— John Stuart Mill
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
— John Gresham Machen
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a…
— Augustus William Hare
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains…
— Justus von Liebig
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Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I…
— Harry Gordon Selfridge
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it…
— Rene Descartes
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My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast…
— Benjamin Franklin
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