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Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

William Shakespeare
Death, Men, Umpires
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6”, p.46

What's more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time, As calling home our exiled friends abroad That fled the snares of watchful tyranny, Producing forth the cruel ministers Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen, Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands Took off her life; this, and what needful else That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace We will perform in measure, time, and place.

William Shakespeare
Queens, Home, Self
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.281

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

William Shakespeare
Yield, Mind, Triumph
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare
Perfection, Merchant Of Venice, Praise
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!

William Shakespeare
Men, Envy, World
William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra”, p.416

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Wisdom, Men
William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

William Shakespeare
Memorable, Hands, Play
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

William Shakespeare
Mean, Power, Venice
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [375]

Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare
Hands, Captains, Fool
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.149

I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him.

William Shakespeare
Book, Faces, Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare (2010). “Measure for Measure”, p.40, Palgrave Macmillan

Minutes, hours, days, months, and years, Pass'd over to the end they were created, Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. Ah, what a life were this!

William Shakespeare
Time, Years, White Hair
William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.476

We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.

William Shakespeare
Time, Sun, Absence
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage”, p.145

Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.

William Shakespeare
Time, Young, Worst
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow.

William Shakespeare
Time, Youth, Brows
Sonnet 60

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare
Time, Strong, Mean
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare
Time, Winter, Age
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Weakness, Avoided
1592 Margaret. HenryVI PartThree, act 5, sc.4, l.37-8.

The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Keys, Self
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.23, Library of Alexandria

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

William Shakespeare
Forgiveness, Pardon Me, Pardon
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1174, BookCaps Study Guides

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

William Shakespeare
Life, Fool, Reason
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 2

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

William Shakespeare
Sorry, True Friend, Real
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

William Shakespeare
Real, Real Friends, Blood
William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.335

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

William Shakespeare
Men, Talking, Age
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Good Luck, Numbers
1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

William Shakespeare
Honor, Scar, Self Injury
William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]”, p.94

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