"What should a man do but be merry?……" — William Shakespeare
"What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours."
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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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It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
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Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's…
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit…
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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which…
— Agnes Repplier
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Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and…
— Louisa May Alcott
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The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.
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