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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare
Strength, Memorable, Stronger

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare
Waiting, Scandal, States
William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

William Shakespeare
Waiting, Digestion, Appetite
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

William Shakespeare
Men, Fool, Beast
William Shakespeare (1976). “The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice”, p.38, Heinemann

Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.

William Shakespeare
Night, Followers, Discharge

Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

William Shakespeare
Religious, War, Law
William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.196, Palgrave Macmillan

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

William Shakespeare
Cunning, Seeming, Wisest
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 97

O, full of scorpions is my mind!

William Shakespeare
Mind, Scorpions
William Shakespeare (1997). “Macbeth: Second Series”, p.83, A&C Black

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

William Shakespeare
Meals, Eating And Drinking, Digestion
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.58

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

William Shakespeare
Venice, Mind, Villain
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [179]

His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Lying, Spring
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 2, sc. 3, l. [22]

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

William Shakespeare
Art, Philosophy, History
'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [61]

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare
Art, Blood, Insult
William Shakespeare (2001). “King Lear”, p.160, Classic Books Company

What a piece of work is a man

William Shakespeare
Philosophical, Men, Pieces
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.

William Shakespeare
4th Of July, Teeth, Gains
William Shakespeare (2016). “WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_”, p.228, e-artnow

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

William Shakespeare
Blow, Wind, Bells
'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 47

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Men, Waste
'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 42

See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Memorable, Design

What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?

William Shakespeare
Rain, Dark, Wind
'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 3, sc. 3, l. 35

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Pain, Past
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Wish, Tears
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.5, Shakespeare Comic Books

O, a kiss Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge! Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip Hath virgined it e'er since.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Queens, Revenge
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 5, sc. 3, l. 44

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

William Shakespeare
Love, Jealousy, Vapour
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?

William Shakespeare
May, Modesty, Betray

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

William Shakespeare
Husband, Maids, Want

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