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For trust not him that hath once broken faith

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

William Shakespeare
Broken, Criminal Mind
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.80

Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Son, Law
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.475

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!

William Shakespeare
Loss, May, Firsts
William Shakespeare (2011). “A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse”, p.21, Faber & Faber

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Night, May
"Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-night's Dream".

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare
Father, Blessed, Moon
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Father, Yield
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.280, Barnes & Noble Publishing

The time is out of joint.

William Shakespeare
Time, Joints
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 188

Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.

William Shakespeare
Time, World, Surveys
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare!

William Shakespeare
Courage, Blood, Lions
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 1, sc. 3, l. 197

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Sweet, Brother
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.

William Shakespeare
Good Night, Goodnight, Order
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 119

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, His day's hot task hath ended in the west: The owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late; The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest; And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, Do summon us to part, and bid good night.

William Shakespeare
Good Night, Goodnight, Clouds
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.178, Cengage Learning EMEA

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

William Shakespeare
I Love You, True Love, Wedding

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

William Shakespeare
Knowledge, Too Much, Fame
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Knowledge, Fate
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

William Shakespeare
Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia
William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.46, Palgrave Macmillan

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

William Shakespeare
Life, Men
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.423, Classic Books Company

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

William Shakespeare
Life, Long, Gentleman
1596-7 Hotspur. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.81-4.

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

William Shakespeare
Life, Numbers, Sand
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.501

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

William Shakespeare
Life, Running, Firsts
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 3, l. 23

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

William Shakespeare
Life, Strong, Wall
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 93

That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.

William Shakespeare
Life, Blow, Lds
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

Leave us to our free election.

William Shakespeare
4th Of July, Election, Free Elections
William Shakespeare (2015). “Pericles”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare
Funny Inspirational, Loss, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [5]

We cannot all be masters.

William Shakespeare
Leadership, Acceptance, Masters
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.230

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