10 Shakespeare Sonnets That Teach Us About Life

Shweta Malik
Sep 10, 2024

Sonnet 1

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

Sonnet 10

"The better part of Valour, is Discretion."

Sonnet 29

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven."

Sonnet 116

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

Sonnet 19

"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."

Sonnet 94

"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

Sonnet 18

"When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st."

Sonnet 2

"Time's glory is to this, where he is spent."

Sonnet 54

"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Sonnet 18

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

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