A Quote by William Shakespeare

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered increase; but, hoarded up, they perish.

Francis Quarles

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

Friedrich Schiller

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Thomas a Kempis

Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.

Friedrich Schiller

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

William Penn

Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

Edgar Allan Poe

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?

Thomas a Kempis

If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death.

Thomas a Kempis

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

Thomas a Kempis

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

George Herbert

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

John Lancaster Spalding

It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

F. A. Harper

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

William Shakespeare

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

William Penn

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.