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Better three hours too soon, than a minute too late.

William Shakespeare

A stitch in time saves nine.

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Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.

William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

This above all: 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