No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en In brief, sir, study what you most affect. (William Shakespeare)
Knock at his study, where they say he keeps To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge; Tell him Revenge is come to join with him, And work confusion on his enemies. (William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. (William Shakespeare)
No profit grows where no pleasure is taken In brief, sir, study what you most affect (William Shakespeare)
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. (William Shakespeare)
The King hath sent to know The nature of your griefs; and whereupon You conjure from the breast of civil peace Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land Audacious cruelty. (William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
Learn, good soul, To think our former state a happy dream; From which awak'd, the truth of what we are Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet, To grim Necessity; and he and Will keep a league till death. (William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
But your discretions better can persuade Than I am able to instruct or teach; And, therefore, as we hither came in peace, So let us still continue peace and love. (William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? (William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream")
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