Quote of William Shakespeare - One touch of nature makes the...

Biography - William Shakespeare:

English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

William Shakespeare

Quotes about nature:

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo /

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion /

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon /

nature

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires /

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation /

All about nature...

Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

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

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

All about the world...

William Shakespeare also said...

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

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

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

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare - Macbeth /

fact

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing /

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;

William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia /

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