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• "How my achievements mock me! I will go meet them."
  By: William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at IV, ii)
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• "So smile the heavens upon this holy act That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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• "What's done cannot be undone."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at V, i)
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• "But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Wife at IV, ii)
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• "From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: The castle of MacDuff I will surprise, Seize upon Fife, give to th' edge th' sword His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls That trace him in his line."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at IV, i)
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• "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
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• "I thank him that he cuts me from my tale, For I profess not talking. Only this-- Let each man do his best; and here draw I A sword whose temper I intend to stain With the best blood that I can meet withal In the adventure of this perilous day."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at V, ii)
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• "O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!"
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at I, iii)
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• ". . . Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears. . . ."
  By: William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Volumnia at III, ii)
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• "Where is our usual manager of mirth? What revels are in hand? Is there no play To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?"
  By: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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• "Hold, or cut bowstrings."
  By: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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• "Let's take the instant by the forward top; for we are old, and on our quickest decrees, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time steals, ere can effect them."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "Heaven never helps the man who will not act."
  By: William Shakespeare
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• "He that is overcautious will accomplish nothing. [Ger., Wer gar zu viel bedenkt, wird wenig leisten.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (III, 1, 72)
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• "Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. [Lat., Prius quam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (I)
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