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

Quote by Shakespeare

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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in...

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in...

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than...

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than...

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

She has brown hair, and speaks small like a woman.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

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,...

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.

Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.

Action is eloquence.

Action is eloquence.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Joy delights in Joy

Joy delights in Joy

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting...

How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting...

I am sworn brother, sweet, To grim Necessity, and he and I Will keep a...

I am sworn brother, sweet, To grim Necessity, and he and I Will keep a...

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Men's vows are women's traitors!

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of...

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but...

Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but...