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• Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iii, Sc.
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• We cannot hold mortality's strong hand. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King John -- Act iv, Sc.
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• Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iii, Sc. 3...
• When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
• In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. -- William Collins (1720-1756) -- Ode to Simplicity
• There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
• So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and questions deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
  To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft of will....
• Actions are usually right, but the reasons seldom are.
• Strong people always have strong weaknesses.