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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

William Shakespeare
Love, Business, Delight
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 4, sc. 4, l. 20

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

William Shakespeare
Love, Gentleman, Months

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

William Shakespeare
Love, Agents, World
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 10, l. [36]

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

William Shakespeare
Love, Cat, Men
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

William Shakespeare
Love, Medicine, Rogues
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. [19]

Good counselors lack no clients.

William Shakespeare
Business, Clients, Counselor
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Measure for Measure! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelli”, p.64, BookCaps Study Guides

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Flower, Glasses
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

William Shakespeare
Death, Night, Bereavement
Sonnet 30

O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Powerful, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “Shakespeare's Complete Works”, p.2475, Simon and Schuster

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

William Shakespeare
Depression, Grief, Mad
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Men, Envy
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 197

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

William Shakespeare
Adders, Bright Days, Walking
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare
Art, Dark, Night
Sonnet 147

These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Science, Night
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed, George Steevens (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.10

For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.

William Shakespeare
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. [409]

O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, War, Fall
'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 352

One pain is lessened by another's anguish.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Anguish
William Shakespeare, Janie B. Yates-Glandorf (2003). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.46, Perfection Learning

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare
God, Idols, Mad
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.291

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.

William Shakespeare
Simple, Skills, Ends
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [108]

Take all the swift advantage of the hours.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Hours, Advantage
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.577

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Weed, Lying
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.

William Shakespeare
Pain, Delight, Vain
William Shakespeare (2015). “Peines d’amour perdues”, p.38, Editions Gallimard

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur
William Shakespeare (1874). “The Reference Shakespeare: A self-interpreting Edition of Shakespeares Plays containing 11600 References. Compiled by John B. Marsh”, p.338

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur
William Shakespeare, Warne Routledge (and Routledge (Londres)), William Hazlitt (1864). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed with Glossarial Notes, Life &c. : in Four Volumes”, p.334

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

William Shakespeare
Art, Brain, Mind
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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