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- 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
- A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3
- How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 4
- [Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost
- A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, sc. 1
- A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, sc. 1
- Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
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