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Gifts
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
-William Shakespeare
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Glory
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I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.
-William Shakespeare
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God
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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
-William Shakespeare
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Goodness
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
-William Shakespeare
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Gratitude
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I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. Twelfth Night
-William Shakespeare
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He receives comfort like cold porridge.
-William Shakespeare
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Greatness & Great Things
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He is not great who is not greatly good.
-William Shakespeare
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
-William Shakespeare
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In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
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Greed
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Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
-William Shakespeare
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Grief, Grieving
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Patch grief with proverbs.
-William Shakespeare
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words.
-William Shakespeare
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For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
-William Shakespeare
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Guilt
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
-William Shakespeare
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Habits
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How use doth breed a habit in man!
-William Shakespeare
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Happiness
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
-William Shakespeare
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
-William Shakespeare
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The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away
-William Shakespeare
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Hate
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Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
-William Shakespeare
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
-William Shakespeare
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
-William Shakespeare
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Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.
-William Shakespeare
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Heart
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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. Henry Iv
-William Shakespeare
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Help
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-William Shakespeare
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Heroes/Heroism
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
-William Shakespeare
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Books by and about William Shakespeare