The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

Quote by Shakespeare

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

Soft pity enters an iron gate.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must...

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must...

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...

Falsehood falsehood cures

Falsehood falsehood cures

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid...

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid...

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare...

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare...

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me...

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me...

Lawn as white as driven snow

Lawn as white as driven snow

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be...

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be...

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?