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Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Past, Heaven
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Spring, Garden
William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Smell, Lilies
Sonnet 94

The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die' But if that flow'r with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Summer, Weed, Sweet
Sonnet 94

Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Grace, Herbs
William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “King Henry VI, pt. 1-3. King Richard III”, p.461

Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Rome, Feet
William Shakespeare (1841). “Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare”, p.321

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Confession, Compost
William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1821). “The dramatic works of William Shakespeare ...”

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Green, Docks
'Henry V' (1599) act 5, sc. 2, l. 44

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Brother, Growth
William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.447, BookCaps Study Guides

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Sweet, Flower
William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.240, A&C Black

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Smell, Deeds
William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.168

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

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Lying, Garden
William Shakespeare, Gayle Holste (2002). “Othello”, p.68, Barron's Educational Series

Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Opinion, Judgment
William Shakespeare (1853). “The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price”, p.33

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Light, Age
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 7, l. 77

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Politics, Pluck
William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (1998). “Richard II”, p.45, Oxford University Press, USA

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Lying, Dirty
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.136

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Character, Soil
William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1849). “The Family Shakespeare: In One Volume, in which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read Aloud in a Family”, p.420

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

William Shakespeare
Inspirational, Weed, Lying
William Shakespeare, David Bevington (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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