“Cowards die many times before their deaths.”

Playwright and poet · 1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language; author of Hamlet and Macbeth.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

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

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.