But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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William Shakespeare
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About William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are perf…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William ShakespeareThere have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
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.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.