“This above all: to thine own self be true.”Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 · View source
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“This above all: to thine own self be true.”Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 · View source
“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 · View source
“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.”As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 · View source
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
“Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 4 · View source
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet 116 · View source
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1 · View source
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source
“Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source