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No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.

William Shakespeare
Scandal, Particular

Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi

William Shakespeare
Night, Long, Bird
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 157

When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Fall, Sunset
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens: With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli, and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chalmers”, p.55

Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

William Shakespeare
Strength, Wind, Loyal

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.

William Shakespeare
Book, Heaven, Looks
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 84

Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.

William Shakespeare
Suicide, Self, Hands
1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.76-8.

And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen.

William Shakespeare
Suicide, Should Have, World
William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.117, 1st World Publishing

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

William Shakespeare
Ocean, Swans, White
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.434

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

William Shakespeare
Disease, Temperance, Appliances
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, William Warburton, William Dodd, Hugh Blair (1795). “King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3. King Richard III. King Henry VIII”, p.276

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.

William Shakespeare
Grace, Body, Temperance
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [57]

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

William Shakespeare
Men, Drink, Harness
William Shakespeare (2000). “Timon of Athens”, p.18, Penguin

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

William Shakespeare
Fire, Blood, Giving
William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.56

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

William Shakespeare
Theft, Profession, Boundless
"Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.

I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Tongue, Hold Me
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.290

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

William Shakespeare
Work, Long, Poison
William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

William Shakespeare
Should, Worst, Foe
William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “Two Gentlemen Verona: Third Series”, p.275, Cengage Learning EMEA

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Bird, Owl
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

William Shakespeare
True Beauty, Romeo And Juliet Love, Torches
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!

William Shakespeare
Nature, Sparks, Hard
William Shakespeare, Michael Henry RANKIN (1841). “The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin”, p.140

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Shame, Stealth
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.746, Oxford University Press

Stones have been known to move and trees to speak.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Tree, Stones
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

William Shakespeare
Grace, Meals, Contempt
William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth.

William Shakespeare
Book, Light
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.282

You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Grief, Needs

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Wisdom, Age
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

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