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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare
Determination, Memories, Purpose

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare
Death, Suicide, Suicidal
1606 Cleopatra. Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, sc.16, l.82-4.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Intelligent, Clouds
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3514, BookCaps Study Guides

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

William Shakespeare
Reading, Magic, Literacy
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 4, l. 70

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

William Shakespeare
Sloth, Laziness, Pillow

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

William Shakespeare
Father, Wish
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 5, l. 91

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

William Shakespeare
Father, Dust, Noble
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.673, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Although the last, not least.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Lasts
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1813). “The plays of William Shakspeare: In twenty-one volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators. To which are added notes”, p.312

From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Memorable, Band

Small to greater matters must give way.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Giving, Matter
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.680

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Men, Brutus
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

William Shakespeare
Home, Memorable, House
1597-8 Mistress Quickly, of Falstaff. Henry IV PartTwo, act 2, sc.1, l.75-6.

Cursed be he that moves my bones.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Memorable, Bones
Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Thinking, Soul

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

William Shakespeare
Conceited, Men, Common
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [42]

I'll teach you differences.

William Shakespeare
Teaching, Science, Differences
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.892, Barnes & Noble Publishing

I am falser than vows made in wine.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Vineyards, Drink
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Son, Men
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.417, Bloomsbury Publishing

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Husband, Light
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

William Shakespeare
Mind, Taming, Body
William Shakespeare (2008). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.139, Book Jungle

Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.

William Shakespeare
Horse, Men, Noble
William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.278, Cambridge University Press

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

William Shakespeare
Relationship, Looks, Glances
Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.1257, Delphi Classics

You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.

William Shakespeare
Relationship, Heart, Wife
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 285

O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

William Shakespeare
Relationship, Doubt, Green Eyes
William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.68

No .... holy father, throw away that thought. Believe not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom.

William Shakespeare
Relationship, Father, Believe
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.28

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