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Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.

Contention, like a horse, Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, And bears down all before him.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Bears, Broke
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.123

Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.

William Shakespeare
Long, Time Flies, Knees
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, TIMON OF ATHENS. TITUS ANDRONICUS. MACBETH. C. MMARCIUS CORIOLANUS. VOLUME the EIGHTH”, p.59

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Greatness, Done
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.315

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Politics, Pluck
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.

William Shakespeare
Civility, Courtesy, Smooth
William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

William Shakespeare
Courtesy, Romeo And Juliet Play
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Angel, Men
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 2, l. [310]

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Coward, Hardness
William Shakespeare (1771). “The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems”, p.195

The breach of custom Is breach of all.

William Shakespeare
Breach, Customs
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.28

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

William Shakespeare
Men, Nerves, Shapes
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison.

William Shakespeare
Daughter, Childhood, Grace
William Shakespeare (2009). “King Lear”, p.36, Palgrave Macmillan

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

William Shakespeare
Clouds, Dawn, Lines
William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.67

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.

William Shakespeare
Bud, Decay, Eating

For what I will, I will, and there an end.

William Shakespeare
Decision, Resolution, Ends
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.96

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

William Shakespeare
Sick, Despair, World
William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.101, Palgrave Macmillan

Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Government, Royalty
'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 3, l. [46]

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Use, Fairy
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.151

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.

William Shakespeare
Night, Destiny, White
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

Past all shame, so past all truth.

William Shakespeare
Past, Shame, Falsehood

Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!

William Shakespeare
War, Farewell, Ambition
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 346

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

William Shakespeare
Farewell, Heart, Mind
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1883). “Shakespeare's The Tempest: With Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Classes”

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

William Shakespeare
Arrows, May, Fancy
William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.187

In maiden meditation, fancy free.

William Shakespeare
Meditation, Fancy, Maidens
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.

William Shakespeare
Fancy, Wavering, Longing
William Shakespeare (2014). “Twelfth Night: Third Series”, p.228, Bloomsbury Publishing

Hang those that talk of fear.

William Shakespeare
Fear
William Shakespeare (1806). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.222

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