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Lacking a mentor in your empty life? In need of someone to steer you in the right direction, away from a vortex of self-pity and eating in bed? Well, we have a very legitimate contender for the role.
Okay so he's dead, let's just get that out of the way. But in his lifetime, he managed to weave enough pieces of poster-worthy wisdom that his legacy shows no sign of disappearing. We're talking about William Shakespeare of course. And we have 30 of his best nuggets of advice for you here.
Live by them, yeah?
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Hamlet
"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one picked… More details
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Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone" More details
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All's Well That Ends Well
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none" More details
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Julius Caesar
"Cowards die many times before their deaths. The… More details
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Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit." More details
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Measure For Measure
"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to… More details
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As You Like It
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man… More details
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Hamlet
"There are more things in heaven and earth than are… More details
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Titus Andronicus
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge." More details
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Two Gentlemen Of Verona
"Absence from those we love is self from self – a… More details
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Cymbeline
"Society is no comfort to one not sociable." More details
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Troilus and Cressida
"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." More details
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Macbeth
“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that… More details
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Henry V
"Men of few words are the best men." More details
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Twelfth Night
"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some… More details
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Romeo & Juliet
"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own… More details
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Measure For Measure
"The miserable have no other medicine but only… More details
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A Midsummer's Night Dream
"The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst… More details
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The Tempest
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows" More details
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Antony and Cleopatra
"In time we hate that which we often fear" More details
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Coriolanus
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends" More details
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King Lear
"'Jesters do oft prove prophets'" More details
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Othello
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft… More details
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The Comedy Of Errors
"Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word" More details
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Hamlet
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking… More details
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Love's Labour's Lost
"Many can brook the weather that love not the… More details
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Much Ado About Nothing
"Time goes on crutches till love have all his… More details
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The Taming Of The Shrew
"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en" More details
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Two Gentlemen Of Verona
"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If… More details
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Henry IV, Part 1
"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would… More details
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