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But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Fear, Sleep
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Fighting, Giving
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Men, Skulls
William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?

William Shakespeare
Loyalty, Earth, Fidelity
William Shakespeare (2000). “Henry VI”, p.174, Penguin

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery.

William Shakespeare
Black, Doe, Flattery
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1822). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”, p.350

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

William Shakespeare
Festivals, Rhyming, Born
1598 Benedick. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.2, l.35-9.

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

William Shakespeare
Courtship, Merry, Fairs
William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.357

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.

William Shakespeare
Mean, Spirit, Youth
William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1853). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; ... with ... Notes, and Scriptural References ... by the Rev. T. Price. ... Second Edition, Enlarged”, p.289

God defend the right.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1842). “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”, p.126

They that touch pitch will be defiled.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1855). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. 1855”, p.126

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Wings, Mind

All is well ended, if the suit be won.

William Shakespeare
Suits, Wells, Ifs

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Sorrow, Needs
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.

William Shakespeare
Appreciation, Blessed, Knows
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Purple, White
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Flower, White
William Shakespeare, J. H. P. Pafford (1963). “The Winter's Tale: Second Series”, p.103, Cengage Learning EMEA

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Rose, Bud
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 39

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

William Shakespeare
Flower, White, Rose
William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.209, Classic Books Company

Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Sweet, Flower
William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Flower, Pride
William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

Wishers were ever fools.

William Shakespeare
Fool
William Shakespeare (1874). “The Shakespeare Argosy: Containing Much of the Wealth of Shakespeare's Wisdom and Wit”, p.251

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

William Shakespeare
Sea, Ornaments, Dangerous
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Barron's Educational Series

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

William Shakespeare
Love You, Physicians, Use
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.54

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

William Shakespeare
Hard
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. 6

It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.

William Shakespeare
Thinking
William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.149, Palgrave Macmillan

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