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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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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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• It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

  

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• Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

  

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• On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

  

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• Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

  

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• Once you stop learning, you start dying.

  

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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