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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare
Death, Dying, Age
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

William Shakespeare
Death, Gentleman, Dying
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [32]

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

William Shakespeare
Men, Water, Honest
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1853). “The Works: 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. Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays, from early manuscript corrections in a copy of the folio, 1632, in the possession of J. Payne Collier : forming a supplemental volume ...”, p.389

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

William Shakespeare
Respect, Ethics, Persons
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [100]

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

William Shakespeare
Love, Would Be, Lions
1604-5 Helen, of Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.90-1.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Father, Speak
William Shakespeare (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.428

To you your father should be as a god.

William Shakespeare
Father, Should, Theseus
1595 Theseus to Hermia. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act1, sc.1, l.47.

You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

William Shakespeare
Father, Let Me
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.8

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

William Shakespeare
Children, Father, Comfort
Sonnet 37

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

William Shakespeare
Food, Fighting, Iron
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

William Shakespeare
Money, War, Heart
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.781

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Joy, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.260

Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Thinking, Giving
William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.292

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Salt, Youth
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, Oxford University Press, USA

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Green, Salad
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 73

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Tongue
William Shakespeare (1848). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. With Remarks on His Life and Writings by T. Campbell. A New Edition”, p.12

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

William Shakespeare
Art, Memorable, Mars
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare
Love, Memorable, Mind
Sonnet 116

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Mouths, Daggers
William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.295

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Heart, Skins
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.564, Wordsworth Editions

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Bloody
'The Tempest' (1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. [221]

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Memorable, Feet
'King John' (1591-8) act 5, sc. 7, l. 112

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Mind, Noble
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.586, Barnes & Noble Publishing

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Dignity, Great Ones

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Business, Memorable
William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine (2004). “Hamlet”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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