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Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Sound, Judgment
William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Eye, Giving
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.43

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

William Shakespeare
Angel, Giving, Devil
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 160

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

William Shakespeare
Children, Sleep, Fighting
The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Giving, Tongue

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

William Shakespeare
Sound, Cracks, Flaws
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 413

Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better.

William Shakespeare
Iron, Age, Comfort
William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2001). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.461, A&C Black

Come, Lady, die to live.

William Shakespeare
Dies
William Shakespeare (1765). “The Plays: Of William Shakespeare, in Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam. Johnson”, p.244

Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

William Shakespeare
Lying, Owl, Bells
William Shakespeare, “Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I]”

Who is it that can tell me who I am?

William Shakespeare
Philosophical, Who I Am
William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.48, Broadview Press

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.

William Shakespeare
Lord, Excellent, Wells
"Arden Shakespeare Complete Works".

Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Noses, Messengers
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.253, BookCaps Study Guides

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare
Men, Thinking, Careers
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.

William Shakespeare
Love, Voice, Heaven
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

William Shakespeare
Fate, Black, Woe
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

William Shakespeare
Sauce, Bitter, Wit
William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, p.49, Hackett Publishing

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Romeo And Juliet Love, Lips
William Shakespeare (2017). “Romeo and Juliet (English Russian illustrated edition): Ромео и Джульетта (английская русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.67, Clap Publishing, LLC.

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

William Shakespeare
Good Night, Dead Poets Society, Hands
William Shakespeare (2013). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.187, Callisto Media Inc

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Kissing, Hands
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Lear: Tragedies by William Shakespeare”, p.163, 谷月社

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

William Shakespeare
Art, Cutting, Throat
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.165, Classic Books Company

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Taken, Devil
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.69

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

William Shakespeare
Vines, Mirth, Toys
'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 213

Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.

William Shakespeare
Dark, Done, Bright Days
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

William Shakespeare
Should, Dear, Benedick
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!

William Shakespeare
Stars, North Star, Terrible
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

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