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Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Heart, Steel
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

William Shakespeare
Plot, Shapes, Divinity
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Men, Cake
'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Saws, You Like It
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun.

William Shakespeare
Giants, May, Sun
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.72, Palgrave Macmillan

A substitute shines brightly as a king Until a king be by, and then his state Empties itself, as dot an inland brook Into the main of waters.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Water, Shining
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 90

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

William Shakespeare
Father, Measure For Measure, Satiety
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.98, Oxford University Press, USA

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

William Shakespeare
Littles, Too Much, Taste
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

William Shakespeare
Office, Savages, Done

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

William Shakespeare
Spirit, Pardon, Flats
William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan, Marina Kastan (2000). “William Shakespeare”, p.32, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions.

William Shakespeare
Suggestions, Arms, Constant
William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.384

To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Mercy, Defence
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.385

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

William Shakespeare
Men, Mind, Marble
William Shakespeare, Colin Burrow (2002). “The Complete Sonnets and Poems”, p.309, Oxford University Press on Demand

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

William Shakespeare
Men, Grease, Mind
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear”, p.268

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!

William Shakespeare
Memories, Fall, Long
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.126

You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.

William Shakespeare
Creeps, Knows
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.127

O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!

William Shakespeare
Dog, Men, Fawns

Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.

William Shakespeare
Silence, Maids, Tongue
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 111

A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.

William Shakespeare
Women, Men
William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.567

Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!

William Shakespeare
Women, Heart, Weak
1599 Portia. Julius Caesar, act 2, sc.4, l.41-2.

Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

William Shakespeare
Women, Self, Niceness
William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190

But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal.

William Shakespeare
Religious, Sex, Uncles
William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.193

O most delicate fiend! Who is't can read a woman? Is there more?

William Shakespeare
Women, Delicate
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.338

Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud; Dismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown, Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Women, Angel
William Shakespeare, George Richard Hibbard (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.204, Oxford University Press, USA

Two women placed together makes cold weather.

William Shakespeare
Women, Weather, Two
1613 Lord Chamberlain. Henry VIII, act1, sc.4, l.22.

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