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“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”

William Shakespeare

Source: King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369

“Is she not passing fair?”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)

“Off with his head!”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Richard, Act III, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)

“A man can die but once.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV

Feeble, Act III, scene ii.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
Macbeth (1606)

“On a day — alack the day! —
Love, whose month is ever May,
Spied a blossom passing fair
Playing in the wanton air”

William Shakespeare book Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”

William Shakespeare

Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/

“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)

“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”

William Shakespeare Cymbeline

Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)

“We have seen better days.”

William Shakespeare Timon of Athens

Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.
Timon of Athens (1605)

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”

William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim

The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.

“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)

“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's will

“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

William Shakespeare

Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed

“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”

William Shakespeare

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).