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- Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
- Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Passionate Pilgrim
- Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act I, sc.3
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
- A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act II, sc. 3
- Purpose is but the slave to memory, of violent birth, but poor validity.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
- Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 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 (1564 - 1616), Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
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