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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy

O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

William Shakespeare
Nature, Sleep, Night
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

William Shakespeare
Shadow, Substance, Deceived
William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.69, BookCaps Study Guides

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

William Shakespeare
Leadership, Inspiration, Men
William Shakespeare, Robert Hapgood (1999). “Hamlet”, p.125, Cambridge University Press

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

William Shakespeare
Vices, Poverty, Sin
'King John' (1591-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. 593

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

William Shakespeare
Darkness, Gentleman, Ironic
'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 4, l. [148]

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

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

He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, Sleep
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.942

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

William Shakespeare
Wicked, Guilt, Goblin
William Shakespeare, Thomas Price (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy, Delineations of Character, Paintings of Nature and the Passions, Seven Hundred Aphorisms, and Miscellaneous Pieces : with Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ...”, p.30

Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

William Shakespeare
Lying, Sassy, Monsters
William Shakespeare (1880). “The Works of Shakespeare: Carefully Prepared from the Earliest and More Modern Editions”

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

William Shakespeare
Choices, Sorrow, Library
'Titus Andronicus' (1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

William Shakespeare
Ignorance, Stupidity, Common
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1570

And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.

William Shakespeare
Teacher, Teaching, Dull

How my achievements mock me!

William Shakespeare
Accomplishment, Achievement, Mock
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 4, sc. 2, l. [72]

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.

William Shakespeare
Wine, Vineyards, Drink
'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]

Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers, Much liker than your painted counterfeit: So should the lines of life that life repair Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen Neither in inward worth nor outward fair Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

William Shakespeare
Flower, Eye, Men
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Fire, Example
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Romantic Love, Best Kiss
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 172

Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Voice, Decision
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.8

Love is merely a madness.

William Shakespeare
Love Is, Happy Love, Madness
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2000). “As You Like It”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Spring, Garden
William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Men, Feet
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “Plays ...”, p.231

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

William Shakespeare
Doors, Play, House
1600-1 Hamlet, of Polonius. Hamlet, act 3, sc.1, l.134-5.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

William Shakespeare
Death, Sea, Arrows
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

William Shakespeare
Kings, Men, Sea
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 2, l. [29]

Good with out evil is like light with out darkness which in turn is like righteousness whith out hope.

William Shakespeare
Light, Evil, Darkness

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