The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Quote by Shakespeare

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Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the...

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past,...

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would...

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would...

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue...

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue...

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards...

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards...

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle;...

He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle;...

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness,...

Journeys end in lovers' meeting; every wise man's son doth know

Journeys end in lovers' meeting; every wise man's son doth know

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...

My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to...

My resolution's placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to...

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity....

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity....

Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women...

Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women...