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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

William Shakespeare
Desire, Politics, Too Short
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Plays and Poems of Shakespeare: According to the Improved Text of Edmund Malone, Including the Latest Revisions, with a Life, Glossarial Notes, an Index, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations”, p.252

I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.

William Shakespeare
Art, Nature, Creating
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.350

A very little little let us do And all is done.

William Shakespeare
Confidence, Done, Littles
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.458

What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?

William Shakespeare
Heaven, Humanity, Hamlet And Ophelia
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.920

They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Humanity, Flattery
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [107]

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

William Shakespeare
Exercise, Mirth, Melancholy
William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1987). “Hamlet”, p.116, Nelson Thornes

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare
Wonder, States, Richness
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1323, Oxford University Press

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

William Shakespeare
Wonder, Made
William Shakespeare (1752). “The Works of Shakespeare”, p.290

Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Comfort, Done
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.64

And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!

William Shakespeare
Men, Vaunt, Cracks
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

William Shakespeare
Change, Marriage, Men
William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.75, Courier Corporation

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

William Shakespeare
Suffering, Fixed, Malady

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

William Shakespeare
Sympathy, Suffering, Saws
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

William Shakespeare
Wind, Sea, Mad
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate (1995). “Titus Andronicus: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

William Shakespeare
Remember, Adieu, Remember Me
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.65

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

William Shakespeare
Fear, Men, Thinking
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, Eye
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers (1856). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., and Edmond Malone, Esq., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, and a Life of Shakspeare; by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A.”, p.387

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

William Shakespeare
Father, Grief, Poor
Shane Barnes, Aidan Coleman, William Shakespeare (2011). “Othello”, p.193, Insight Publications

There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

William Shakespeare
Names, Rivers, Fingers
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 7, l. [28]

What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

William Shakespeare
Fate, Ends, Mighty God
BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.427, BookCaps Study Guides

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Noble, Poor

How poor are they that have have not patients.

William Shakespeare
Patient, Poor

Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers.

William Shakespeare
Teacher, May, Fool

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Adversity, Jewels
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare
Children, Father, Eye

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