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Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1823). “Richard the Third. Henry the Eighth. Coriolanus”, p.119

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

William Shakespeare
Ignorant, Let Me, Knows
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.89

Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.

William Shakespeare
Men, Ifs
William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Story Donno (2004). “Twelfth Night Or What You Will”, p.71, Cambridge University Press

The play's the thing.

William Shakespeare
Play, Acting
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

The cunning livery of hell.

William Shakespeare
Hell, Cunning
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.105

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

William Shakespeare
Justice, Naked, Steel
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.478

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare
Nature, Mirrors
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

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Cracks, Break, Oath
1607 Pericles to Helicanus. Pericles, sc.2, l.125-6.

The insolence of office.

William Shakespeare
Office, Insolence
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

William Shakespeare
Jewels, One Day, Upbraid
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.329

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Past, Comfort
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.581

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare
Adversity, Strange, Strange Bedfellows

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.

William Shakespeare
Imperfection, Reckoning, Made
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 74

Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

William Shakespeare
Abuse, Birth, Juliet
William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

William Shakespeare
Land, Choices, Adoption
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Venice, Mistress
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere”, p.323

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Heaven, Bows
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

If money go before, all ways do lie open.

William Shakespeare
Money, Lying, Way
1597-8 Ford (as Brooke).The MerryWives ofWindsor, act 2, sc.2, l.164-5.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

William Shakespeare
Music, Sweet, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 69

Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

William Shakespeare
Voice, Crowns, Opinion
William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.556

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

William Shakespeare
Wish, World, Sun
William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

William Shakespeare
Sports, Gnats, Shining
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.39, BookCaps Study Guides

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

William Shakespeare
People, Looks, World
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.470

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Suspicion, Ready
William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.9

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Tongue, Instinct
William Shakespeare, Giorgio Melchiori (2007). “The Second Part of King Henry IV”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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