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William Shakespeare
Haste still pays...
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for...
Thou hast nor...
Thou hast nor youth nor age;
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Dreaming on...
The miserable hath...
The miserable hath no other medicine
But only hope.
Source: Measure for Measure,...
They say best...
They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And for the most, become much more the better
For being a little...
I am a...
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
Source: Measure for Measure, IV. iii....
O! it is...
O! it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a...
A man whose...
A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the...
I hold you...
I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted.
Source: Measure for Measure, I. iv....
Some rise by...
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Source: Measure for Measure, II. i....
Virtue is bold,...
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Source: Measure for Measure, III. i....
Tis neither here...
'Tis neither here nor there.
Source: Othello, IV. iii. (59).
-- William...
Tis the soldier's...
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
Source:...
Be sure of...
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.
Source: Othello, III. iii. (361).
--...
How poor are...
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Reputation is an...
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without...
I am not...
I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.
Source:...
By heaven, he...
By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be...
This is the...
This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
Source: Othello, V....
To mourn a...
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone,
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Reputation, reputation, reputation!...
Reputation, reputation, reputation! O! I have lost my reputation, I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what...