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- If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Men of few words are the best men. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act III, sc. 2
 
- My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, sc. 5
 
- Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act I, sc. 1
 
- Things are often spoke and seldom meant. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Virtue is choked with foul ambition. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible! 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 3
 
- 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act I, sc. 4
 
- Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1
 
- Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 1
 
- Though fortunes malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 3
 
- Trust not him that has once broken faith. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 4
 
- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act V, sc. 6
 
- In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 1
 
- I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Nature does require her times of preservation. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
 
- Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. 
 - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act IV, sc. 2
 
- O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come! 
 - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
 
- His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!' 
 - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
 
- Let me have men about me that are fat, 
  Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:   Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;   He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.  - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
 
 
	
 
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