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'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.

William Shakespeare
Beautiful, Art, Heaven
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.428

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

William Shakespeare
Fairness, Praying, Speak
William Shakespeare (1791). “THE PLAYS OF William Shakspeare, COMPLETE IN EIGHT VOLUMES.: CONTAINING KING JOHN, RICHRARD II. HENRY IV. PART I. HENRY IV. PART II. HENRY V. THE ENGRAVINGS TO THIS VOLUME ARE, TWO SCENES TO EACH PLAY, AND TWO ALLEGORIES. ALLEGORIES. 1. YOUTH ATTENDING THE DICTATES OF SHAKSPEARE. 2. THE TRAGIC AND COMIC MUSE ADORNING THE STATUE OD SHAKSPEARE”

Such an act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.

William Shakespeare
Hypocrite, Rose, Grace
William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still: The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.

William Shakespeare
Angel, Men, Two
Sonnet 144

Rest you fair, good signior; Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

William Shakespeare
Men, Mouths, Lasts
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.170

you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now seems best.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Shining, Maids
William Shakespeare (1793). “King Lear ; Romeo and Juliet”, p.354

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

William Shakespeare
Tears, Noses, Innocence
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

If people knew how much I hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.

William Shakespeare
People, Catchy, Hated

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Art, Men
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

William Shakespeare
Death, Waiting, Dying
1609 Hermione. The Winter's Tale, act1, sc.2, l.94-5.

I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Hands, Inward
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXVIii”

Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

William Shakespeare
Men, Two, Wife
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1559

Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.

William Shakespeare
Woe Unto, Bird, Sorrow
William Shakespeare (1843). “The Poems of William Shakspere: With Facts Connected with His Life”, p.42

Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Dresses, Fancy
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

William Shakespeare
Book, Fighting, Warrior
William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

William Shakespeare
May, Empty, Made
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.

William Shakespeare
Death, Sight, Might
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Pericles, prince of Tyre”, p.198

Live how we can, yet die we must.

William Shakespeare
Death, Dies
'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

William Shakespeare
Death, Eye, Looks
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 86

Make passionate my sense of hearing.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Passionate, Hearing
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

William Shakespeare
Clouds, Perspective, Storm
William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.660, BookCaps Study Guides

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend.

William Shakespeare
Book, Hands, Feet
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [96]

To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes

William Shakespeare
Bed, Midnight
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.4254, BookCaps Study Guides

When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.

William Shakespeare
Leadership, Sea, Floating

Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one.

William Shakespeare
Love, Two, Let Me
William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6623, Delphi Classics

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