„Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.“

— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well

Last update May 9, 2022.

William Shakespeare697

English playwright and poet 1564 - 1616

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„Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.“

— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

Source: All's Well That Ends Well

Love, Life, Silence

„All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.“

— Clarence Darrow American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union 1857 - 1938

As quoted in Infidels and Heretics : An Agnostic's Anthology (1929) edited by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, p. 206

Life, Men

„It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.“

— Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005

Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 119

„None of all the magic hosts,
None remain but a few ghosts
Of timorous heart, to linger on
Weeping for lost Babylon.“

— Robert Graves English poet and novelist 1895 - 1985

"Babylon"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
Context: Robin, and Red Riding Hood
Take together to the wood,
And Sir Galahad lies hid
In a cave with Captain Kidd.
None of all the magic hosts,
None remain but a few ghosts
Of timorous heart, to linger on
Weeping for lost Babylon.

Heart

„It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.“

— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

Suffering, Cheating

„Too many hearts have been broken
Failing to trust what they feel.
But trust isn't something that's spoken
And love's never wrong when it's real.“

— Dan Fogelberg singer-songwriter, musician 1951 - 2007

Believe in Me.
Song lyrics, Windows and Walls (1984)

Love, Feeling, Heart

„Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all they do.“

— Philip Wylie American writer 1902 - 1971

Source: Generation of Vipers (1942), p. 104
Context: Few men, indeed, are so mad that they do not know when they are doing wrong. But so avid is their pursuit of goods that wrongdoing has become an element of all they do. To protest that fact is idle. Our politics, our business — little and big, our professions, our labor, are smitten in every facet with a corruption occasioned by reckless determination to make not just a reasonable profit but all the profit that can be wrung from every enterprise. Our commonest man, emulating his superiors, forges ahead with a brick on the safety valve of his conscience. Think over your morning paper in that light.

Men, Madness

„Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late“

— Tom Morello American guitarist and singer-songwriter 1964

One Man Revolution.
Lyrics

Love, Light, Waiting

„If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.“

— John Donne, The Good-Morrow

Songs and Sonnets (1633), The Good-Morrow
Context: p>I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee. And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.</p

Love

„She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:“

— William Wordsworth, book Lyrical Ballads

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, st. 1 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

Love, Way, Spring

„We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.“

— Alison Croggon contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist 1962

Evil

„He who loves trusts the loved one unreservedly, and in all things.“

— Alessandro Piccolomini Italian writer and philosopher 1508 - 1579

Act III., Scene III. — (Cornelio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 261.
L’Alessandro (1544)

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