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The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.

William Shakespeare
Peace, Three, World
William Shakespeare, Richard Madelaine (1998). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.264, Cambridge University Press

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about There's scarce a bush.

William Shakespeare
Night, Wind, Ruffles
William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.411

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Art, Husband
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.98

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

William Shakespeare
Thinking, Fire, Faces
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.707, BookCaps Study Guides

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

William Shakespeare
Men, Doors, Athens
'Timon Of Athens' act 1, sc. 2, l. [152]

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.

William Shakespeare
Notes, Mines
William Shakespeare (1866). “The works of William Shakespeare”, p.97

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

William Shakespeare
Enemy, Seems
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Mr Theobald (Lewis) (1803). “King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V”, p.356

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare
Peace, Mountain, Firm
William Shakespeare (1807). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.123

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Honesty, Men
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.177, BookCaps Study Guides

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare
Reading, Reason, Wells
1594-5 King. Love's Labour's Lost, act1, sc.1, l.94.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Advice, Hamlet And Ophelia
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes”, p.146

I was adored once too.

William Shakespeare
Love, Love You
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [200]

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Men, Clothes
William Shakespeare (1803). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.361

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

William Shakespeare
Death, Patience, Hamlet And Ophelia

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare
Success, Rust, Perpetual
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [247]

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Time, Lying
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [329]

They say miracles are past.

William Shakespeare
Past, Miracle
1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

O, had I but followed the arts!

William Shakespeare
Art, Artist
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

William Shakespeare
Vanity, Glasses, Mouths
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [35]

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

William Shakespeare
Men, Desert, Use
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [561]

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

William Shakespeare
Together, Turns, Nothingness
William Shakespeare (1843). “Merchant of Venice”, p.43

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

William Shakespeare
Men, Might, Exceed

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

William Shakespeare
Blood, Important Macbeth, Nature Of Evil
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare
Venice, Strange, Framed
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

William Shakespeare
Virtue, Calumny, Scapes
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.63, Classic Books Company

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