Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Quote by Shakespeare

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Speak low, if you speak love.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him,...

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him,...

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Nothing will come of nothing

Nothing will come of nothing

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops...

This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.

This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it...

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it...

I dote on his very absence.

I dote on his very absence.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it...

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it...

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is...

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is...

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He...

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He...

When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt.

When life gets rocky, crumble away the burdens of lies, fear, and doubt.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.