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William Shakespeare: By medicine life...

William Shakespeare: By medicine life...

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Though patience be...

William Shakespeare: Though patience be...

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Source: Henry V, II. i....

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William Shakespeare: He was a...

William Shakespeare: He was a...

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading:
Lofty and sour to them...

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William Shakespeare: Men prize the...

William Shakespeare: Men prize the...

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Source: King Henry VIII.
--...

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William Shakespeare: A friend should...

William Shakespeare: A friend should...

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they...

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William Shakespeare: Frame your mind...

William Shakespeare: Frame your mind...

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.


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William Shakespeare: . . ....

William Shakespeare: . . ....

. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a...

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William Shakespeare: He that loves...

William Shakespeare: He that loves...

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

Source: Timon of Athens,...

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William Shakespeare: Here are a...

William Shakespeare: Here are a...

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper!


Source: The...

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George Farquhar: Grant me some...

George Farquhar: Grant me some...

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Source: Lady Lurewell,...

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Euripides: Much effort, much...

Euripides: Much effort, much...

Much effort, much prosperity.

Source: 'The Suppliant Women'
-- Euripides, (Sep...

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William Wordsworth: You must love...

William Wordsworth: You must love...

You must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.


Source: A Poet's...

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William Wordsworth: The light that...

William Wordsworth: The light that...

The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.


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William Wordsworth: Tax not the...

William Wordsworth: Tax not the...

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense.

Source: Ecclesiastical Sonnets, III....

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William Wordsworth: Surprised by joy...

William Wordsworth: Surprised by joy...

Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind
I turned to share the transport.


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William Wordsworth: By our own...

William Wordsworth: By our own...

By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end...

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William Wordsworth: After ten months'...

William Wordsworth: After ten months'...

After ten months' melancholy,
Became a good and honest man.


Source: Peter Bell,...

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William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Source: Resolution and...

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William Wordsworth: We poets in...

William Wordsworth: We poets in...

We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof comes in the end despondency and...

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William Wordsworth: Lost in the...

William Wordsworth: Lost in the...

Lost in the gloom of uninspired research.

Source: The Excursion
-- William...

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