Immemorial Words by William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend
Under thy own life’s key: be cheque’d for silence,
But never tax’d for speech.”
“Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest”
“Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
“What is the city but the people?”
“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me”
“What ‘s gone and what ‘s past help should be past grief”
“This was the noblest Roman of them all”
“Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
“I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.”
“Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss’d
The wild waves whist.”
– from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare, Esquire.
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