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Fate & Destiny
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There is 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 we are now afloat; and we must take the current the clouds folding and unfolding beyond the horizon. when it serves, or lose our ventures.
-William Shakespeare
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Such as we are made of, such we be.
-William Shakespeare
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Father
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
-William Shakespeare
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Fear
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
-William Shakespeare
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The best safety lies in fear.
-William Shakespeare
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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
-William Shakespeare
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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
-William Shakespeare
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Fight, Fighting
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
-William Shakespeare
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Flattery
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I will praise any man that will praise me.
-William Shakespeare
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He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
-William Shakespeare
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He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.
-William Shakespeare, Richard II Richard at act 3, sc. 2
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Fools, Foolishness
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Lord, what fools these mortals be.
-William Shakespeare
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The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Measure For Measure
-William Shakespeare
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
-William Shakespeare
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He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
-William Shakespeare
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Fortune
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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 by shallows and in misery. Julius Caesar
-William Shakespeare
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
-William Shakespeare
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
-William Shakespeare
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Freedom
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We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
-William Shakespeare
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Friends
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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
-William Shakespeare
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
-William Shakespeare
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
-William Shakespeare
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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
-William Shakespeare
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
-William Shakespeare
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Future, The
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-William Shakespeare
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Books by and about William Shakespeare