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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

William Shakespeare
Ignorance, Knowledge, Darkness
1601 Feste to Malvolio.Twelfth Night, act 4, sc.2, l.43-4.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Full Circle, Vices
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Faces, Horatio
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 231

A flock of blessings light upon thy back

William Shakespeare
Life And Love, Blessing, Light
William Shakespeare, Jonnie Patricia Mobley (2003). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: A Facing-pages Translation Into Contemporary English”, p.150, Lorenz Educational Publishers

What's done is done. The joy is in the doing.

William Shakespeare
Love, Joy, Done

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Done, Ends
William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1860). “All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2”, p.343

All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

William Shakespeare
Men, Wind, Games

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

William Shakespeare
Love, Fashion, War
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

William Shakespeare
Love, Life, Family
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.171, BookCaps Study Guides

What's done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.

William Shakespeare
Bed, Done, Undone
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [74]

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare
Believe, Doe, Beef
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

William Shakespeare
Love, Wish, World
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.3105, Oxford University Press

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

William Shakespeare
Looks, Deeds, Ugly
William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.482

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

William Shakespeare
Valor, Offering Advice, Valour
"The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare".

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Honest, Speed
'Richard III' (1591) act 4, sc. 4, l. 359

I understand a fury in your words But not your words.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Desdemona, Fury
William Shakespeare (1757). “The Works: Of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes. Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical: by Mr. Theobald”, p.314

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Humanity, Lust
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.284

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe

William Shakespeare
Strong, Coward, Use
'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 310

Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet And Ophelia, Rosemary, Herbs
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [174]

The wheel is come full circle.

William Shakespeare
Love, Circles, Wheels
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [176]

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

William Shakespeare
Love, Strength, Tears
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [174]

When I was at home I was in a better place

William Shakespeare
Home, Touchstones, Better Place
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [16]

But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare
Christmas, Xmas, Mirth
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

William Shakespeare
Dance, Husband, Feet
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

William Shakespeare
Cassius, Born, Born Free
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 97

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