We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us their favorite, inspirational Shakespeare quote. Here's what they said!
2. “What’s past is prologue” —The Tempest
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3. “Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love.” —Hamlet
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5. "Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me." —Much Ado About Nothing
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6. And then there was a star danced, and under that was I born”—Much Ado About Nothing
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7. "My drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire" —Henry VIII
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9. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” —Measure for Measure
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10. “Screw your courage to the sticking place, and we shall not fail.” —Macbeth
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11. “Violent delights have violent ends” —Romeo and Juliet
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13. "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." —Julius Caesar
14. "Listen to many people, but talk to few." —Hamlet
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15. "I know I love in vain, strive against hope; Yet in this captious and insensible sieve I still pour in the waters of my love. And lack not to lose still." —All's Well That Ends Well
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17. "Reason and love keep little company together nowadays." —A Midsummer Night's Dream
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18. “Our doubts are our traitors and make us lose the good we oft might get by fearing to attempt”—Measure for Measure
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19. “When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions.” —Hamlet
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20. “We that are true lovers run into strange capers” —As You Like It
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22. "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove."—Sonnet 116
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23. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” —All's Well That Ends Well
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24. "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day" —Macbeth
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26. "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much." —Much Ado About Nothing
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27. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date." —Sonnet 18
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28. "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." —Twelfth Night
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29. “Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.” —Hamlet
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31. "I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell." —A Midsummer Night's Dream
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32. "There is no woman’s sides can bide the beating of so strong a passion as love doth give my heart." —Twelfth Night
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33. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” —Hamlet
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34. "So our virtues lie in the interpretation of time: and power, unto itself most commendable, hath not a tomb so evident as a chair to extol what it hath done. One fire drives out one fire." —Coriolanus
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36. “There was a star danced, and under that was I born. ”
―Much Ado About Nothing
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37. "Persevere in that clear way thou goest, and the gods strengthen thee!" —Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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38. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horacio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." —Hamlet
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39. "If I be waspish, best beware my sting." —The Taming of the Shrew
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