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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

If music be the food of love, play on.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Nothing can come of nothing.

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.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

What's done can't be undone.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

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