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| To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The love of heaven makes one heavenly. | [▲] | [▼] |
| But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is a wise father that knows his own child. | [▲] | [▼] |
| He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. | [▲] | [▼] |
| They that touch pitch will be defiled. | [▲] | [▼] |
| The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. | [▲] | [▼] |
| True nobility is exempt from fear. | [▲] | [▼] |
| O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. | [▲] | [▼] |
| My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. | [▲] | [▼] |
| What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? | [▲] | [▼] |
| Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad | [▲] | [▼] |
| 18's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. | [▲] | [▼] |
| 'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Sweet are the uses of adversit | [▲] | [▼] |
| 7's sweet milk, philosophy. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Be great in act, as you have been in thought. | [▲] | [▼] |
| As in a theatre, the eyes of m | [▲] | [▼] |
| Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. | [▲] | [▼] |