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Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

William Shakespeare
Memories, Ghost, Remember
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Simplicity, Infancy
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]

Let us kill all lawyers

William Shakespeare
Lawyer

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.

William Shakespeare
Anxiety, Cures, Worst
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.750

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

William Shakespeare
Cat, Animal, Humanity
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. [64]

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Fall, Men
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.564

How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

William Shakespeare
Music, Sweet, Broke
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.258

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Ambition, Light
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.155, Classic Books Company

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

William Shakespeare
Order, Office, Priorities
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 85

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare
Life, Enemy, Care
William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.

William Shakespeare
Health, Son, Giving
William Shakespeare (2008). “The Oxford Shakespeare: King Henry VIII: or All is True”, p.154, OUP Oxford

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Eye, Science
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Prayer, Ignorant
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.120, Cambridge University Press

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

William Shakespeare
Life, Memories, Keys
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.221

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

William Shakespeare
Christian, Revenge, Humility

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

William Shakespeare
Arrows, Volunteer, Purpose
William Shakespeare (1998). “Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations”, p.1, Courier Corporation

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

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

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Villainy
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.108

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

William Shakespeare
Education, Learning, Years
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare
Art, Book, Eye
'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 4, sc. 3, l. [350]

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

William Shakespeare
Life, Long, Excellent
'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

William Shakespeare
Summer, Strong, Health
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

William Shakespeare
Flower, World, Pleasure
William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.1088, Wordsworth Editions

Would I were in an alehouse in London.

William Shakespeare
Beer, London
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

William Shakespeare
Children, Lying, Grief
'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 4, l. 93

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