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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Adversity, Light
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1854). “The Beauties of Shakespeare. [By W. Dodd.]”, p.19

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Men, Eulogy
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 5, sc. 5, l. 68

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

William Shakespeare
Funeral, Meat, Denmark In Hamlet
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2002). “Hamlet”, p.16, Oxford University Press, USA

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

William Shakespeare
Romeo And Juliet Play
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.805

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

William Shakespeare
Men, Giving, Sauce
Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.26, Orient Blackswan

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Tempest, Gonzalo From Tempest
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 405

I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.

William Shakespeare
Gone, Feels, Knows

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

William Shakespeare
Clever, Garments

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

William Shakespeare
Men, Beard, Youth
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.107

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

William Shakespeare
Feet, Foe
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

William Shakespeare
Good Luck, Fool, Classic
William Shakespeare (1843). “Romeo et Juliette: tragédie”, p.54

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

William Shakespeare
Witty, Men, Causes
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [7]

And too soon Marred are those so early Made.

William Shakespeare
Made
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 2, l. 12

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare
Men, Library, Tempest
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 109

World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Yield, Age
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.231, Classic Books Company

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

William Shakespeare
Business, Learning, Eye
William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.

William Shakespeare
Blow, Wind, Sea
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Glasses, Breathing
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 9

On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Bats
'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Halloween, Thinking
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Battle, Royal
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare
Mother, Stars, Hours
1598 Beatrice. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.313-14.

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

William Shakespeare
Fate, Injury, Mockery

The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.

William Shakespeare
Owl, Spirit, Wonder
"A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

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

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