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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

William Shakespeare
Honorable, Teach, Discretion
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.436

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Doubt, Tents
William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

William Shakespeare
Eggs, Shells, Eating
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.170, Bloomsbury Publishing

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

William Shakespeare
Ribs, Eating, Rich

What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?

William Shakespeare
Beef, Pieces, Eating
'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 3, l. [23]

My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.

William Shakespeare
Cake, Eating, Share
William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.508

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

William Shakespeare
Actors, Faults, Measure For Measure
'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

William Shakespeare
Fool, Shots, Folly
William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Mr. Steeven's [!] Last Edition, with a Selection of the Most Important Notes ...”, p.175

Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.

William Shakespeare
Father, Son, Guests
William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1842). “The Beauties of Shakspeare: Regularly Selected from Each Play : with a General Index Digesting Them Under Proper Heads”, p.93

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?

William Shakespeare
Pockets, Ease, Inns
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 3, l. [91]

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

William Shakespeare
Insanity, Mind, Suffering
William Shakespeare (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works”, p.157

If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

William Shakespeare
Hands, Giving, Heaven
William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.252

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

William Shakespeare
Simple, Sea, Judging
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Should Have, Murder
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 127

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Oratory, Matter
William Shakespeare (1767). “Mr. William Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. The taming of the shrew”

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

William Shakespeare
Passion, Sleep, Voice
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.89, BookCaps Study Guides

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

William Shakespeare
Hail, Masters, Harm
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.692, BookCaps Study Guides

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

William Shakespeare
Two, Voice, Waiting
William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Foxes, Tricks
1596-7 Worcester. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.9-11.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

William Shakespeare
Names, Teeth, Noble
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.

William Shakespeare
Hurt, Book, Eye
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, William Warburton (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.28

Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Unity, Earth
William Shakespeare (2000). “Macbeth”, p.158, Penguin

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

William Shakespeare
Ornaments, Chastity, Chaste
William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.35

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Book, Heart

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

William Shakespeare
Ends, Should, Preacher
William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight]. [8 vols. The vol. containing the biogr. is of the 3rd ed.].”, p.359

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