Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
To do a great right do a little wrong.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
They do not love that do not show their love.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Death is a fearful thing.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
I bear a charmed life.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.