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The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

The weary sun hath made a golden set And by the bright tract of his fiery car Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

William Shakespeare
Twilight, Giving, Car
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

William Shakespeare
Dream, Night, Sight

Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Blow, Dust
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1036, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

William Shakespeare
Men, Masters, Happy Man
William Shakespeare, William Harness, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1”, p.353

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

William Shakespeare
Horse, War, Archer
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

Now all the youth of England are on fire, And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies; Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

William Shakespeare
Lying, War, Men
'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 1

Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?

William Shakespeare
War, Order, Land
William Shakespeare (2015). “King John”, p.72, Courier Dover Publications

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

William Shakespeare
War, Valor, Prize
William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honest, Wedlock
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.846, Wordsworth Editions

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare
Art, Husband, Vines
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome.

William Shakespeare
Light, Laughing, Welcome
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.632

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

William Shakespeare
Wisdom, Together, May
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Sir Thomas Hanmer (1771). “The Plays of Shakespeare from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson: With the Prefaces, Notes, Etc. of Rowe, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton, Johnson and Select Notes from Many Other Critics ; Also, the Introduction of the Last Editor Mr. Capell; and a Table Shewing His Various Readings ...”, p.77

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

William Shakespeare
Intelligence, Politics, Fool
William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.54

Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Thinking
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

William Shakespeare
Voice, Woe, Tongue
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.518, BookCaps Study Guides

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Philosophical, Men
William Shakespeare (1858). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.471

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

William Shakespeare
Grieving, Dust, Wife
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [64]

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

William Shakespeare
Wife, Pace, World
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Evil, Hypocrisy
William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

A great cause of the night is lack of the sun.

William Shakespeare
Philosophical, Night, Darkness
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.670, BookCaps Study Guides

Speak on, but be not over-tedious.

William Shakespeare
Boredom, Speech, Speak
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.250

Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Remembrance, Thanks
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.289

O hell! to choose love with another's eye.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Hell

Lend less than you owe.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

William Shakespeare
Beauty Within, Should
1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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