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Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.

William Shakespeare
Light, Boat, Sail
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus”, p.525

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

William Shakespeare
Promise, Kept Promises, Promises That Are Broken
William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

William Shakespeare
Promise, Wish, Debt
William Shakespeare, John Britton, Samuel Johnson, Charles Whittingham (1813). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

William Shakespeare
Issues, Excellence, Use
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?

William Shakespeare
Looks, Earth, Witch

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

William Shakespeare
Trifles, Alas
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Plunge, Thyself
William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes”, p.41

No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

William Shakespeare
Strong, Kings, Greatness
William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.172, Oxford University Press, USA

Things past redress are now with me past care

William Shakespeare
Acceptance, Caring, Past
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Heart, Men
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [256]

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

William Shakespeare
Art, Grief, Idols
William Shakespeare, T.W. Craik (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.272, Cengage Learning EMEA

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Men, Noble
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.570

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Deceit, Speak
William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.115, Oxford University Press, USA

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Deceit, Noses
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

William Shakespeare
Pride, Deeds, Vanity And Pride
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

William Shakespeare
Silence, Grace, Gone
1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

William Shakespeare
Grace, Deeds
1590-1 Proteus. The Two Gentlemen of Verona, act 2, sc.2, l.16-18.

Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Book, Light
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.117, Cengage Learning EMEA

Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

William Shakespeare
Black, Devil, Suits
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.349

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Devil, Crosses
William Shakespeare, Isaac Ambrose ECCLES (1805). “The Comedy of the Merchant of Venice ... With the Notes and Illustrations of Various Commentators, and Remarks by the Editor [A. Eccles].”, p.116

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

William Shakespeare
Soldier, Littles, Holes
William Shakespeare, Richard Farmer, Nicholas Rowe, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.452

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

William Shakespeare
Doubt, Macbeth Play, Confined
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

William Shakespeare
Doubt
William Shakespeare (2012). “Othello”, p.117, Courier Corporation

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

William Shakespeare
Crow, True Beauty, Torches
Hilary Burningham, William Shakespeare (1997). “Romeo & Juliet”, p.13, Evans Brothers

My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Eagles, Sea
William Shakespeare, Karl Klein (2001). “Timon of Athens”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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