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No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Men, Office
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.120

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

William Shakespeare
Dog, War, Men
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

Can we outrun the heavens?

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Outrun
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Heart, Eye
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Alexander Pope (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentick Copies, and Revised; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added, an Essay on the Chronological Order of His Plays; an Essay Relative to Shakspeare and Jonson; a Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI; an Historical Account of the English Stage; and Notes; by Edmond Malone”, p.167

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Soul, England
'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 3, l. 10

Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Should Have, Looks
'Venus And Adonis' (1593) l. 295

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

William Shakespeare
Life, Fortune, Torment
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1785, Modern Library

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

William Shakespeare
Life, Care, Cures
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.19

When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Men, Blue
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. [902]

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Our Actions, Madness
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

William Shakespeare
Art, Nature, Kindness
'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Cooking
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.95

Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Horse, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Art, Philosophy
William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Twenties, Trouble
William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.177, Cengage Learning EMEA

Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Taming, Wenches
1593 Katherine.TheTaming of the Shrew, act 5, sc.2, l.185.

If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Hands, Two
William Shakespeare (2007). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

You kiss by th' book.

William Shakespeare
Book, Kissing
William Shakespeare (2015). “Romeo and Juliet: Third Series”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

William Shakespeare
Life, Ambition, Mean
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.131, Classic Books Company

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Breakfast, Lions
William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.454

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.

William Shakespeare
Men, Faults
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Gambling, Dice
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [84]

The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him.

William Shakespeare
Giving, Heaven, Way
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.316

Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Light, Ice
'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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