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One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Grace, Virtuous
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.125

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

William Shakespeare
Men, Two, Evil
William Shakespeare (1790*). “The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged”, p.204

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

William Shakespeare
Eye
William Shakespeare, Adrian Raymond (1963). “Shakespeare's Sonnets”, p.42, Heinemann

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Men, Sea
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

William Shakespeare
Winter, Tales, Goblin
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Life, Prison
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (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.591

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

William Shakespeare
Engineering, Bridges, Needs
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.280

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Science, Men

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard.

William Shakespeare
Sports, Squash
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1784). “The Beauties of Shakespeare ... The Third Edition, Corrected, Revised and Enlarged”, p.305

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Power, Half
1603-4 Emilia to Othello. Othello, act 5, sc.2, l.169-71.

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

William Shakespeare
Hamlet And Ophelia, Strange, Murder
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 27

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

William Shakespeare
Women, Thinking, Reason
'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 2, l. 23

One man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare
Birthday, Character, Men
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

William Shakespeare
Speech, Firsts, Witch
William Shakespeare, James Robert Ballantyne (1858). “Shakspere's Play of Macbeth”, p.86

There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Men, Taught
William Shakespeare, Cynthia Marshall (2004). “As You Like It”, p.186, Cambridge University Press

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

William Shakespeare
Uncles, Teaching, Dignity
William Shakespeare, David M. Bevington (1998). “Henry IV”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge

William Shakespeare
Wind, Sea, Ships
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.723, BookCaps Study Guides

I am ill at these numbers.

William Shakespeare
Math, Numbers, Ill
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.213

Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Kissing, Light
Sonnet 33

Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Science, Moon
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

William Shakespeare
Light, Temptation, Devil
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

William Shakespeare
Couple, Fear, Heaven
1600-1 Hamlet. Hamlet, act1, sc.5, l.92-7.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Littles, Sweetheart
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 6, l. [65]

Security is the chief enemy of mortals.

William Shakespeare
Enemy, Chiefs, Safety And Security

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