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Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Giving, Gone

Fight to the last gasp.

William Shakespeare
War, Fighting, Lasts

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Fighting, Extremes
Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1209, Barnes & Noble Publishing

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

William Shakespeare
Art, Fighting, Bravery
William Shakespeare (1853). “The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete”, p.461

I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

William Shakespeare
Nice, Fighting, Men
William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

William Shakespeare
War, Fighting, Flesh
William Shakespeare (1863). “Shakespeare's plays, abridged and revised for the use of girls by R. Baughan. Book 1, containing the tragedies and historical plays”, p.12

Experience teacheth us That resolution 's a sole help at need: And this, my lord, our honour teacheth us, That we be bold in every enterprise: Then since there is no way, but fight or die, Be resolute, my lord, for victory.

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Victory, Needs
William Shakespeare (1780). “Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays Published in 1778”, p.227

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Fighting, Hands
William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.305, Race Point Pub

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).”

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Sleep, Fighting
William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.412, Classic Books Company

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

William Shakespeare
Wise, Fighting, Littles
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.49

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villainy! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight But where her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety.

William Shakespeare
Strong, Humorous, Fighting
William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1811). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens. With a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, from the Most Eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c.[edited] by Alexander Chalmers”, p.231

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo

William Shakespeare
Love You, Fighting, Men
William Shakespeare (1771). “The works of Shakespear [ed. by H. Blair], in which the beauties observed by Pope, Warburton and Dodd are pointed out, together with the author's life; a glossary [&c.].”, p.78

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

William Shakespeare
Food, Fighting, Iron
'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 7, l. [166]

Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint.

William Shakespeare
Anger, Fighting, Rocks
William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.643, BookCaps Study Guides

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

William Shakespeare
Fear, Fighting, Giving
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

William Shakespeare
Children, Sleep, Fighting
The Winter's Tale III. III. 59

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Bird, Owl
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 8

God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!

William Shakespeare
Fighting, Battle, Royal
William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1776, BookCaps Study Guides

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd

William Shakespeare
Book, Fighting, Warrior
William Shakespeare (1881). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, Explanatory Foot-notes, Critical Notes, and a Glossarial Index”

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