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Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Evil, Departure
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.316, Wordsworth Editions

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

William Shakespeare
Life, Art, Winter
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Flower, White
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare
Family, Wise, Meaningful
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 2, l. [83]

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

William Shakespeare
Moving, Agony, Soul
1594-5 Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, sc.2, l.843.

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

William Shakespeare
Long, Sickness, All Things
'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [191]

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

William Shakespeare
Omission, Sun, Danger
William Shakespeare, Bowdler (1823). “The family Shakspeare”, p.179

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.

William Shakespeare
Funny, Women, Thinking
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Food, Sunset
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 11

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

William Shakespeare
Wonder, Fame, Comets
William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan (2002). “King Henry IV Part 1: Third Series”, p.260, Cengage Learning EMEA

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

William Shakespeare
Wish, Criminals, Criminal Mind

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

William Shakespeare
Love, Venice, Blind
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

William Shakespeare
Love, Angel, Evil
William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

William Shakespeare
Men, Evil, Soul
1598-9 King Harry. HenryV, act 4, sc.1, l.4-5.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

William Shakespeare
Angel, Important Macbeth, Brows
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Morning, Adorable

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare
Life, Denmark In Hamlet, Hamlet And Ophelia
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 2, l. 10

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

William Shakespeare
Brain, Lovers, Fantasy
1595 Theseus. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc.1, l.4-6.

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Kissing, Moon
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

Greatness knows itself.

William Shakespeare
Power, Greatness, Honor
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 3, l. 74

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Simplicity, Environmental

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare
Marriage, Night, Clown
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Mirrors, Shadow
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.655

Dirty days hath September April June and November From January up to May The rain it raineth every day All the rest have thirty-one Without a blessed gleam of sun And if any of them had two-and-thirty They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty." "April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

William Shakespeare
Spring, Blessed, Rain

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping.

William Shakespeare
Vegetables, Hot, Herbs
'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 103

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