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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.

William Shakespeare
Kings, Lying, Needs
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.50

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.

William Shakespeare
Men, Law, Helping
William Shakespeare, Suzanne Gossett (2004). “Pericles: Third Series”, p.234, Cengage Learning EMEA

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

William Shakespeare
Smell, Giving, Rose
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

William Shakespeare
Spirit, Wander, Wit
'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [60]

And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare
Poverty, Poor
'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 155

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

William Shakespeare
Poverty, Thanks, Poor
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.259

Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

William Shakespeare
Advice, Silence, Speech
1604-5 Countess to Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.64-5.

Sin will pluck on sin.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Pluck
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.

William Shakespeare
Uplifting, Views, Hammers
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Art, Slavery
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Cymbeline. Timon of Athens”, p.387

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

William Shakespeare
World, Levels, Blank

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Night, Toil
William Shakespeare (2007). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

William Shakespeare
Sorrow, Comfort
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3867, BookCaps Study Guides

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

William Shakespeare
Imagination, Honor, Toil
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1848). “1847. Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.35

Nature does require her times of preservation.

William Shakespeare
Environmental, Doe, Stewardship
1613 Wolsey to Henry. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.147-8.

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?

William Shakespeare
Kings, Mean, Sleep
1597-8 King Henry. Henry IV PartTwo, act 3, sc.1, l.25-31.

On your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

William Shakespeare
Team, Sleep, Night
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.501

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Sleep, Eye
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 176

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.

William Shakespeare
Sleep, Eye, Attachment
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.363

The heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.

William Shakespeare
Team, Twilight, Sunrise
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.318

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

William Shakespeare
Eye, World, Sun
William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.129, Oxford University Press, USA

Travelers must be content.

William Shakespeare
Travel, Traveler
William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.469

Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.

William Shakespeare
Travel, Lying, Home

Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Brother, Woods
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 2

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

William Shakespeare
Heart, Easy, Form
William Shakespeare (1794). “Pericles. Twelfth night. Winter's tale”, p.212

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