Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
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William Shakespeare
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O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)
Educated men are so impressive!
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne
Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.
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.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
I bear a charmed life.
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.
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.