Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Every why has a wherefore.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
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