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Biography - William Shakespeare:

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

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


Note 

Note




Source: The Merchant of Venice

wikisource - Merchant of Venice (en) 



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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Vois comme cette petite chandelle répand au loin sa lumière ! Ainsi rayonne une bonne action dans un monde malveillant.

German
Wie weit die kleine Kerze Schimmer wirft! So scheint die gute Tat in arger Welt.




See also 

See also...



A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.




Quotes for: good


Quotes

Quotes for: good


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





To do good needs no consideration.





The best is the enemy of good.





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











Quotes for: world


Quotes

Quotes about the world:


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





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.






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





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





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





We admire the world through what we love.











Quotes for: light


Quotes

Quotes about light:


All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





To love beauty is to see light.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.





What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.





Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.











Quotes

William Shakespeare also said...


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





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






What's done cannot be undone.





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





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






Meet the time as it seeks us.












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