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A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Moon, Shine Bright
William Shakespeare, J. M. Jephson (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.466

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Men, Sea
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.599, BookCaps Study Guides

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Swear

The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Kissing, Moon
'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

William Shakespeare
Art, Grief, Moon
William Shakespeare, Thomas BOWDLER (F.R.S.) (1831). “The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition”, p.824

The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Rome, Snow
William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.229

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Men, Errors
'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 107

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.

William Shakespeare
Dog, Moon, Rome
'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 27

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

William Shakespeare
Moon, Circles, Fickle
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 107

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Light, Sky
"A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

William Shakespeare
Lying, Moon, Men
Sonnet 35

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Moon, Night
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Fire, Thieves
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.401

How slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a stepdame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Men, Long
William Shakespeare (2017). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing

And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Desire, Her Beauty
'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 34

As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

William Shakespeare
Truth, Science, Moon
William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

William Shakespeare
Stars, Moon, Guilt
William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Night, Four
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.117, BookCaps Study Guides

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.

William Shakespeare
Father, Blessed, Moon
William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.162

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

William Shakespeare
Sports, Blow, Moon
'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. 206

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Men, Sea
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.362

Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound; And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare
Fall, Science, Moon
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

William Shakespeare
Moon, Heaven, Bows
William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

William Shakespeare
Art, Grief, Moon
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

William Shakespeare
Heart, Moon, Men
William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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