They say, best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad.

William Shakespeare in Measure for Measure
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Enobarbus: I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.

classic line from the play Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 6, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Self Epitaph

Good friend, for Jesus' sake, forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he who moves my bones.

poem by William Shakespeare
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Sigh No More

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blith and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no mo
Of dumps so dull and heavy;
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so,
But let them go,
And be you blith and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.

poem by William Shakespeare
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Sigh no more

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.

Sing no more ditties, sing no more
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men was ever so
Since summer first was leafy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.

song, lyrics by William Shakespeare from the play Much Ado about Nothing, Act II, Scene 3 (1599)
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Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time.

line from the play Macbeth, Act I, Scene 5, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

quote by William Shakespeare
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Portia: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

line from the play The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1598)
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Shallow: Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and broke open my lodge.
Falstaff: But not kissed your keeper's daughter?

lines from Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1602)
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Valentine: How use doth breed a habit in a man!

line from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1593)
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Hamlet: These indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passeth show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe.

classic line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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And let me the canakin clink, clink;
And let me the canakin clink
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span;
Why, then, let a soldier drink.

limerick by William Shakespeare from Othello, Act II, Scene 3 (1603)
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Lucullus: Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

line from the play Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1606)
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Parolles: There's place and means for every man alive.

line from the play All's Well That Ends Well, Act IV, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1605)
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Lewis: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

classic line from the play King John, Act III, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1596)
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Hamlet: I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself.

classic line from the play Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Caesar: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

line from the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Mercutio: Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?

classic lines from Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene IV by William Shakespeare (1597)
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