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Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

William Shakespeare
Holiday, Shops, Beggar
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 72

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Venice, Mercy Of God
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [182]

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

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

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

William Shakespeare
Looks, Taming Of The Shrew, Empty
William Shakespeare, Harold James Oliver (1999). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.186, Oxford University Press, USA

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

William Shakespeare
Deaf
William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.679

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Heaven, Oracles
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4800, BookCaps Study Guides

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

William Shakespeare
Art, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books
Sonnet 66

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

William Shakespeare
Honesty, Grief, Ears
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.541

How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.

William Shakespeare
Humble, Kissing, Nurse
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 55

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

William Shakespeare
Strong, Honesty, Wind
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 66

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Heaven, Looks
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.139

For by his face straight shall you know his heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Faces, Knows
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.119, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

William Shakespeare
Shaving, Fit, Chairs
'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 2, l. [18]

Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!

William Shakespeare
Farewell, Greatness, Long
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare
Good Night, Goodnight, Angel
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [373]

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

William Shakespeare
Heart, Heaven, Humanity
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Brother, Glasses
William Shakespeare (1832). “Dramatic Works: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.276

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

William Shakespeare
Rocks, Jewels, Sea
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.25

He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Mines
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.294

A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Dumb, Kind
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.58

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Memorable, Matter
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Law, Measure For Measure
1603 Angelo to Isabella. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.92.

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare
Art, Memorable, Comfort
1610 Innogen to Pisanio. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.180-1.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Men, Use
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 1

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare
Art, Memorable, Sight
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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