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Birth
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He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.
-William Shakespeare
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Boredom
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
-William Shakespeare
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Bravery
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When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
-William Shakespeare
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Discretion is the better part of valour.
origin: Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.'
-William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
-William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. 2, line 32."
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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.
-William Shakespeare
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
-William Shakespeare
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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.
-William Shakespeare
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Brevity
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Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.
-William Shakespeare
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Business
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We were not born to sue, but to command.
-William Shakespeare
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Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
-William Shakespeare
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O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?
-William Shakespeare
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Caution
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.
-William Shakespeare
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To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
-William Shakespeare
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Censorship
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
-William Shakespeare
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Character
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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
-William Shakespeare
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
-William Shakespeare
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Charisma
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I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.
-William Shakespeare
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Chastity
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
-William Shakespeare
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Children
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
-William Shakespeare
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
-William Shakespeare
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Comedy
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Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
-William Shakespeare
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
-William Shakespeare
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Company, Companions
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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
-William Shakespeare
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Competition
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Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
-William Shakespeare
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Books by and about William Shakespeare