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Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Ink, Matter
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.232

I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Pride, Boys
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Book, Pride

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Men, May
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 80

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.

William Shakespeare
Heat, Quarrels, Sharpness
William Shakespeare (2011). “King Lear Thrift Study Edition”, p.109, Courier Corporation

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

William Shakespeare
Relaxation, Lag, Quiet
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 23

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

William Shakespeare
Two, May, Secrecy
William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

O shame, where is thy blush?

William Shakespeare
Shame
William Shakespeare (2003). “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

William Shakespeare
Men, Boards, Ships
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [22]

Base is the slave that pays.

William Shakespeare
Slavery, Pay, Slave
William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

William Shakespeare
Storm, World, Lasting
William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.299

All hoods make not monks.

William Shakespeare
Appearance, Monk, Hood
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, Samuel Weller Singer, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.184

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

William Shakespeare
Bud, Corruption, Sweetest
Sonnet 35

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

William Shakespeare
Curiosity
William Shakespeare (1820). “Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare”, p.143

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

William Shakespeare
Dust, Clay, Dignity
William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.268

Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity.

William Shakespeare
Dignity
William Shakespeare (1861). “Shakspeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice: with intr. remarks and notes, adapted for scholastic or private study by J. Hunter”, p.70

Prosperity's the very bond of love.

William Shakespeare
Bonds Of Love, Prosperity
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. [586]

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

William Shakespeare
Reason, Prove
William Shakespeare (2004). “Twelfth Night (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.37, Sparklesoup LLC

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.51

So all my best is dressing old words new.

William Shakespeare
Dressings, New Words
Sonnet 76

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

William Shakespeare
Secure, Wounds
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.

William Shakespeare
Worst, Climbs, Cease
William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.92

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Circumstances, Leading Me
1600-1 Polonius, of Hamlet's madness. Hamlet, act 2, sc.2, l.159-61.

Covering discretion with a coat of folly.

William Shakespeare
Covering, Coats, Folly
William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.401

When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

William Shakespeare
Children, Men, Understanding
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89

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