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Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

Use almost can change the stamp of nature.

William Shakespeare
Use, Habit, Potency
William Shakespeare (1851). “Dictionary of Shakespearian quotations: Exhibiting the most forcible passages illustrative of the various passions, affections and emotions of the human mind”, p.158

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

William Shakespeare
Courage, Dignity, Virtue
William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus”, p.492

One sin another doth provoke.

William Shakespeare
Sin, Provoking
William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Virtue, Trumpets
William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.263, BookCaps Study Guides

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

William Shakespeare
Fashion, Welcome, Ceremony
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.169, Classic Books Company

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

William Shakespeare
Men, Reason
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.132

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

William Shakespeare
Men, Fancy, Be A Man
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.105

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

William Shakespeare
Knowing, Serious Things, Faults
William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Past, Welcome
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.233

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

William Shakespeare
Wish, Contempt
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.185

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

William Shakespeare
Scapes, Thunderbolts
William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra”, p.136, Classic Books Company

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

William Shakespeare
Men, Thinking, Noble Man
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1786). “Coriolanus”, p.139

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.

William Shakespeare
Men, Vices
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.499

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

William Shakespeare
Sad, Tired, Desert
Sonnet 66

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

William Shakespeare
Anger, Fire, Devil
William Shakespeare (1826). “The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq”, p.671

Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Heart, My Heart
William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CXXXIii”

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Anger, Speak
'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [257]

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Feelings, Pleasure
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.612

Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

William Shakespeare
Running, Anger, Fire
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1716, BookCaps Study Guides

O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

William Shakespeare
Friendship, Eye, Play
William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Flower, Men
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 167

He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Flower, Sea
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.376

When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.

William Shakespeare
Inspiration, Humor, Insight
William Shakespeare (2009). “Julius Caesar Thrift Study Edition”, p.96, Courier Corporation

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

William Shakespeare
War, Night, Doe
'Coriolanus' (1608) act 4, sc. 5, l. [237]

I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill.

William Shakespeare
Garlic, Cheese, Windmills
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [158]

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