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William Shakespeare
For so work...
For so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled...
Every subject's duty...
Every subject's duty is the king's: but every subject's soul is his own.
Source:...
I see you...
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit;...
Though patience be...
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Source: Henry V, II. i....
Advantage is a...
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.
Source: Henry V, III. vi.
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Hung be the...
Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!
Source: Henry VI, Pt I, I. i....
I owe him...
I owe him little duty and less love.
Source: Henry VI, Pt I, IV. iv. (34).
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She's beautiful and...
She's beautiful and therefore to be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Defer no time,...
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
Source: Henry VI., Pt. I, III, ii.
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Unbidden guests<br>Are often...
Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Source: Henry VI, Pt I,...
He was a...
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading:
Lofty and sour to them...
He was a...
He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach.
Source: Henry VIII, IV. ii. (33).
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Men prize the...
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
Source: King Henry VIII.
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Men's evil manners...
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water.
Source:...
I have touched...
I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, and from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my...
I swear 'tis...
I swear 'tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a...
Some come to...
Some come to take their ease
And sleep an act or two.
Source: Henry VIII,...
Orpheus with his...
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did...
Had I but...
Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my King, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine...
Heat not a...
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
Source: Henry...