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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

William Shakespeare
Happiness, Happy, Kings
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.539

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Player, Air
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Captivity, Bears
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.30

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Remembrance, Gone
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens, ..., and Edmond Malone, ..., with Mr. Malone's Various Readings ; a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators”, p.91

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

William Shakespeare
Love, Courage, Heart
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2004). “Macbeth”, p.35, Oxford University Press, USA

How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

William Shakespeare
Home, Tyrants, Alliances
William Shakespeare (1825). “The Family Shakspeare ... in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text: But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family ...”, p.263

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

William Shakespeare
Eagles, Wrens, World
William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Funny Inspirational, Memorable
William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.196

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

William Shakespeare
Art, Stills
William Shakespeare, Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1906). “The Works of William Shakespeare”

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

William Shakespeare
Women, Disputes, Lunatic
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare ...”, p.29

Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.

William Shakespeare
Love, Husband, Eye
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [327]

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

William Shakespeare
Smile, Encouraging, Broken Heart
'Othello' (1602-4) act 1, sc. 3, l. 208

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

William Shakespeare
War, Kissing, Tyrants
1607 Pericles. Pericles, sc.2, l.84.

For this relief, much thanks

William Shakespeare
Bitter Cold, Relief, Thanks
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 8

Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

William Shakespeare
Brain, Age, Weakness
William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.129, Penguin

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.

William Shakespeare
Sympathy, Condolences, Giving
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.166, BookCaps Study Guides

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare
Life, Running, Nature
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare
Music, Food, Unrequited Love
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Heart, Eye
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

All offences come from the heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Offence
William Shakespeare (1766). “The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609”, p.60

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare
Writing, Crafts, Suits
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Music, Wisdom, Prayer

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?

William Shakespeare
Storm, Frost, Matter
1598 Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.4, l.40-2.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!

William Shakespeare
Sassy, Letters, Unnecessary
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 2, l. [68]

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare
Life, Death, Nature
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

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