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The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

William Shakespeare
Arrows, Invisible, Cupid
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

William Shakespeare
Fruit, Firsts, Ripe Fruit
William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.297

We must be gentle now we are gentlemen.

William Shakespeare
Gentleman, Gentle, Gentleness
William Shakespeare (1815). “A Select British Theatre: Containing All the Plays Formerly Adapted to the Stage”

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

William Shakespeare
Gossip, May, Slander
William Shakespeare (2012). “Much Ado About Nothing Thrift Study Edition”, p.33, Courier Corporation

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

William Shakespeare
Simplicity, Midsummer, Duty
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare
Praise, Good Things, Should
William Shakespeare (1792). “The Shakspeare gallery; containing a select series of scenes and characters, accompanied by criticisms and remarks, on 50 (40) plates (designed by H. Singleton).”

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

William Shakespeare
Men, May, Affair
1599 Cassius to Brutus. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.95-6.

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

William Shakespeare
Blow, World, Buffets
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 1, l. 108

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

William Shakespeare
Revenge, Giving, Grace
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

William Shakespeare
Men, Rogues, Found
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1766). “THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, KING RICHARD II. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.. VOLUME the FIFTH”, p.143

We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.

William Shakespeare
Benefits, Action, Longing
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Jay L. Halio (1999). “King Henry VIII, Or, All is True”, p.90, Oxford University Press

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion.

William Shakespeare
Acting, Looks, Sides
William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedy of King Richard III”, p.260, Oxford University Press, USA

Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.

William Shakespeare
Play, Acting, Speak
1600-1 Hamlet to the players. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.38-9.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Bait, Carp
William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

William Shakespeare
Fool, Bait, Opinion
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast, Who plead for love, and look for recompense, More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.

William Shakespeare
Book, Dumb, Tongue
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 23.

For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

William Shakespeare
Baby, Book, Giving
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 343

Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.

William Shakespeare
Business, Play, Sorrow
William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate, Eric Rasmussen (2009). “King Lear”, p.94, Palgrave Macmillan

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Hands, Land
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, William Hazlitt, Isaac Reed (1851). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.358

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.

William Shakespeare
Book, Care, Afar
William Shakespeare (2004). “CliffsComplete King Henry IV”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare
Reason, Violent, Expeditions
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.121, Classic Books Company

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.

William Shakespeare
Judging, Mercy, Fetters
William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Charles Symmons (1842). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone, with a Life of the Poet”, p.84

Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air: Through the velvet leaves the wind, All unseen can passage find; That the lover, sick to death, Wish'd himself the heaven's breath.

William Shakespeare
Air, Wind, Sick
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1847). “Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life”

There's daggers in men's smiles.

William Shakespeare
Men, Daggers
'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [146]

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

William Shakespeare
Hours, Born, Merry
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.117

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