William Shakespeare Quotes

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

William Shakespeare

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

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• Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.

  

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• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

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• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  

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• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

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• This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

  

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  

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• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

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• The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

  

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• I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.

  

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• I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.

  

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• Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

  

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  

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• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

  

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• We need to have complete certainty that things will work out, not because we are righteous or wise, but because of the time, the effort, the prayers, and the tools we are using. From the moment we are given awareness about some bigger picture or mission, we have to have complete focus on what to do to get to that place.

  

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• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

  

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• They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.

  

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• I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

  

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• The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.

  

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• Let Saigons be bygones / Don't you blow this world in two.

  

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• Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world’s resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature. Lacking that, he also lost his foresight, and unwittingly depleted the inheritances of his children. “We cannot, when the nation becomes fully civilized and very rich, continue to be civilized and rich unless the nation shows more foresight than we are showing at this moment.

  

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• We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

  

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• Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wise
  • Virtue
  • Conscience