To Thine Own Self Be True- Starmsmith

Well, I've been pressured to post, so I decided to just post my leadership speech. after all, isn't this called "The Teens of Freedom?" I think that Shakespeare has such beauty in his writing and that what he says is so true, that I just want to share this with the world! I gave it in class as my leadership speeh, and was also asked to give it in a leadership seminar shortly afterwards. I'd say about 80% of this whole text is soley Shakespeare. Listen closely.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! Now is the winter of our discontent. ‘Tis the mightiest in the mightiest, but fear not, for some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some, have greatness thrust upon them.
To be a well governed youth, we must to our own selves be true. By Heaven! It is as proper to our age to hold our duty as we hold our soul! To be a virtuous name. Aye, But what’s in a name? for it is virtue that becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. Virtue, wisdom, and goodness to the vile, seem vile. But I say, arise fair sun and kill the envious moon! Thine enemy is at hand, and he is none other than thyself.
You, as a leader should look not in on thyself, nor should thou look outward at others, for in a leader these are one and the same. thou should beware of entrance into a quarrel, give every man thine ear, but reserve thy judgment. Neither a borrower nor a lender be, but to thine own self to be true.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. What’s he? He be thou, and thou is before god, and in my mind, very wise. And yet, at times you may be troubled. In sooth, thou may not know why you are sad, for all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players. But if you be, Humble, gracious, benevolent, courteous, good, trustworthy, and always abounding in what is right, then perhaps, thine exit may be a timely one.
If thou can’st forgive thyself, then you may find it easier to forgive others, and in those moments you may cry out saying, “alas poor Yorick!” for he is deceased, or as you might say, “gone to heaven” and thus I say to you; listen, forgive those who need forgiveness and reserve thy judgment. Let not thy conclusions be quick, but ponder long the facts that are known, aye, e’en unto exhaustion. And above all, to thine own self be true.
Some may scorn you and, by doing so, hoist with their own petards. For he who scorns another, fails not to do himself due injury as well. They may call you obstinate, or injurious, say to you that you must needs step wisely, but hearken not! For thou are thee, and thee is thy, and in turn thy is thou, and thou would’st do well lend thine ears, but not thy soul. Let not others tell thou who thou should’st be, but again, to thine own self be true.
What is a man, if the chief good and market of his time, be but to sleep and feed? You must needs be great, rightly, to be great is not to stir without great argument, but greatly find quarrel in a straw when honor’s at the stake. How stand you then?
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers we. Be it not enough that we are young? We have strength left in us yet. Crystal is muddy when compared with the clarity only God can bring. So fear not, for you are great in his eyes, you must needs make virtue a necessity, and… to thine own self be true.