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Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.

William Shakespeare
Beauty, Women, Miracle
1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

Ten masts make not the altitude Which thou hast perpendicularly fell. Thy life's a miracle.

William Shakespeare
Life, Miracle, Masts
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.797

I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.

William Shakespeare
Work, Men, Oats
William Shakespeare (1812). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.99

The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Sleep, Blood
William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.363, Bloomsbury Publishing

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.

William Shakespeare
Despair, Enmity
William Shakespeare, Nicholas Rowe (1823). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

Hate pollutes the mind.

William Shakespeare
Hate, Mind

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

William Shakespeare
Freedom, Liberty, Selfishness
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.98, BookCaps Study Guides

Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world's my way.

William Shakespeare
Travel, World, Way
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.36

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare
Men, Honor, Fame
'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 20

The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause.

William Shakespeare
Men, Years, World
William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (2009). “As You Like It”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.

William Shakespeare
Peace, Fighting, Should Have
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).”

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

William Shakespeare
Time, Travel, Pace
'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [328]

A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?

William Shakespeare
Humor, College, Thinking
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.129

How every fool can play upon the word!

William Shakespeare
Play, Fool, Wit
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 5, l. [48]

Who can control his fate?

William Shakespeare
Fate, Destiny
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 264

O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

William Shakespeare
Men, Rejection, Abuse
William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.28, Shakespeare Comic Books

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.

William Shakespeare
Legs, Taste

Now is the winter of our discontent.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Winter, Merchant Of Venice
'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus.

William Shakespeare
"The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice".

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

William Shakespeare
Love, Running, Angel

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

William Shakespeare
Brother, Hamlet And Ophelia, Tempest
'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [291]

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

William Shakespeare
Breaths
William Shakespeare (1808). “Coriolanus; Or The Roman Matron. Othello, The Moor of Venice. Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. London, Longman 1808. 68,89,71,75 S., 4 Tf”, p.48

Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words

William Shakespeare
Poison, Sugar
King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 2.

thus with a kiss I die

William Shakespeare
Kissing, Romance, Dies
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Mr Theobald (Lewis), Isaac Reed (1803). “Romeo and Juliet. Comedy of errors”, p.247

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Speak, Enough
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.298, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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