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So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Goodness, Desdemona
1603-4 Iago. Othello, act 2, sc.3, l.351-3.

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

William Shakespeare
Wit, Defence, Muster
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

William Shakespeare
Love, Rude, Boisterous
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.57, Classic Books Company

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them

William Shakespeare
Pity, Danger
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.889

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare
Life, Blessed, Wine
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [98]

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

William Shakespeare
Life, Chance, Disaster
William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.130

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

William Shakespeare
Life, Father, Years
William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.934

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

William Shakespeare
Life, Air, May
William Shakespeare (1842). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage”, p.335

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

William Shakespeare
Life, Men, Errors
Sonnet 116

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Tired, Mares
William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.93, Penguin

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Venice, Shylock
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [107]

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Should Have, Heaven

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Kings, Gazing
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Pericles. Titus Andronicus. Addenda. Indexes”, p.200

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Cake, Wheat
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

Who can be patient in extremes?

William Shakespeare
Patience, Patient, Be Patient

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare
Patience, Mean, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Sympathy, Blessing, Soul
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.228, BookCaps Study Guides

When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Honesty, Lying
Sonnet 138

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

William Shakespeare
Change, Taken, Opportunity
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

William Shakespeare
Christmas, Rose, Desire
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare
Mirrors, Special, Acting
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

In right and service to their noble country.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Noble
William Shakespeare (1773). “The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected”, p.212

Who is here so vile that will not love his country?

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [31]

I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.

William Shakespeare
Country, 4th Of July, Favors
William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

William Shakespeare
4th Of July, Boast
'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 271

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