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Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

Top 10 Best Quotes

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

“If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.”

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.”

“Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

“Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.”

“a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.”

“O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.”

“How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”

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humor, unrequited-love, destination, meetings, love, paraphrased, music, destiny, greatness, shakespeare, romance, journeys, lovers

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