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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

William Shakespeare
Adversity, Men, Substance
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.57

Bosom upon my counsel; You'll find it wholesome.

William Shakespeare
Advice, Bosoms

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.

William Shakespeare
Love Is, Affection, Bent
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 36

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

William Shakespeare
Affliction, Bears, Cry
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.798

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, One Day, Affliction
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.111

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Men, Lady Macbeth
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.867, Wordsworth Editions

No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.

William Shakespeare
Sad, Giving, Sullen
Sonnet 71

The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Fall, Heaven
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.641

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare
Blind, Reason, Cures
William Shakespeare (2013). “Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.132, BookCaps Study Guides

I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.

William Shakespeare
Faces, Blushing, Perceive
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.630

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Yield, Gold
William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

William Shakespeare
Men, Space, Honor
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.694

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

William Shakespeare
Bleeding, Made, Butchers
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1828). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare”, p.42

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

William Shakespeare
Shapes, Fancy, Twelfth Night Important
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Heart, Eye
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Father, Men
William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

William Shakespeare
Evil, Desire, Sanctuary
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy.

William Shakespeare
Fancy, Motive, Courses
William Shakespeare (2001). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.82, Courier Corporation

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

William Shakespeare
Denmark In Hamlet, Tongue, Murder
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [625]

If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Needs, News
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.76, Palgrave Macmillan

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.

William Shakespeare
Ocean, Rocks, Sea
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.57, Palgrave Macmillan

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.

William Shakespeare
Oysters, May, Fool
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Grief, Men
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins.

William Shakespeare
Country, Profound, Wife
William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakespeare: with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage”, p.147

Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare
Country, Son, Patriotism
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.627

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