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And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare
Time, Littles, Faults
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

William Shakespeare
Death, Grief, Enemy
William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.275

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.

William Shakespeare
Integrity, Writing, Feelings
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.90

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare
Love, Strong, Science
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.203

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

William Shakespeare
Love, Eye, Mines
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.224

My love admits no qualifying dross

William Shakespeare
Love, Dross, Qualifying
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.298, Bloomsbury Publishing

Let's meet as little as we can

William Shakespeare
Inspiration, Littles
William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.165, Classic Books Company

I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Party, Science
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.

William Shakespeare
Nuts, Sweetest
William Shakespeare (2006). “As You Like It”, p.13, Theatrefolk

To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Furious
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1839). “The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.”, p.194

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

William Shakespeare
Sacrifice, Hot, Deaf
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

William Shakespeare
Heart, Brave, Soul
'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.

William Shakespeare
Atheism, Reign, Strife
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1266, BookCaps Study Guides

Direct not him whose way himself will choose; 'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

William Shakespeare
Advice, Way, Breaths
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”, p.256

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

William Shakespeare
Journey, Age, Earth
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (écrivain) (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare”, p.71

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

William Shakespeare
Men, Noble Man, Glad
William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Mrs. Inchbald (1808). “King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts”

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.

William Shakespeare
Kind, Tempest, Baseness
William Shakespeare, Khan (2001). “The Tempest”, p.56, Orient Blackswan

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

William Shakespeare
Men, Luck, Events
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.

William Shakespeare
Wall, Kissing, Journey
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.267

Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.

William Shakespeare
Confidence, Kind, Thee
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.189, Oxford University Press

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Men, Earth
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 256

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Observance, Breach
William Shakespeare (1849). “The Shakspearian Reader: A Collection of the Most Approved Plays of Shakspeare : Carefully Revised, with Introductory and Explanatory Notes, and a Memoir of the Author : Prepared Expressly for the Use of Classes, and the Family Reading Circle”, p.12

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

William Shakespeare
Night, Clouds, Light
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

William Shakespeare
Men, Mind, Hazards
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 7, l. 18

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

William Shakespeare
Gambling, Honor, Dice
William Shakespeare, Sir John Oldcastle, William Harness, Alexander Anderson (1848). “A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakespeare: Comprising the Seven Dramas, which Have Been Ascribed to His Pen, But which are Not Included with His Writings in Modern Editions”, p.147

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