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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
William Shakespeare on ambition

Vaulting ambition which o'er leaps itself.
William Shakespeare on ambition

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
William Shakespeare on beauty

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
William Shakespeare on beauty

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
William Shakespeare on business

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
William Shakespeare on character

True nobility is exempt from fear.
William Shakespeare on class

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare on death

They that touch pitch will be defiled.
William Shakespeare on defilement

Men at some time are masters of their fates:<
William Shakespeare on destiny

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare on doubt

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
William Shakespeare on fame

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare on father

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare on fear

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
William Shakespeare on fool

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare on happiness

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare on heaven

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare on honesty

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare on husband

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
William Shakespeare on hypocrisy