William Shakespeare Quotes About Wisdom
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
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As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
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With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
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Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
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There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
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For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.
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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
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Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
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There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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