Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern InstanceChapman and Hall, 1848 - 145 pages |
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... bear his friend's infirmities . A lower place , note well , May make too great an act . Ambition , The soldier's virtue , rather makes choice of loss Than gain which darkens him . A woman's fitness comes by fits . All solemn things ...
... bear his friend's infirmities . A lower place , note well , May make too great an act . Ambition , The soldier's virtue , rather makes choice of loss Than gain which darkens him . A woman's fitness comes by fits . All solemn things ...
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... , than by our deed acquire Too high a fame , when him we serve ' s away . Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us , and we punish it , Seeming to bear it lightly . Breach of custom is breach of all . By medicine 21.
... , than by our deed acquire Too high a fame , when him we serve ' s away . Bid that welcome Which comes to punish us , and we punish it , Seeming to bear it lightly . Breach of custom is breach of all . By medicine 21.
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... d at first To set a gloss on faint deeds , hollow welcomes , Recanting goodness , sorry ere ' tis shewn ; But where there is true friendship , there needs none . Common chances common men can bear . Cowards die many 24.
... d at first To set a gloss on faint deeds , hollow welcomes , Recanting goodness , sorry ere ' tis shewn ; But where there is true friendship , there needs none . Common chances common men can bear . Cowards die many 24.
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... bear . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent . Cowards father cowards , and base things sire base : Nature hath meal and bran ...
... bear . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once . Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent . Cowards father cowards , and base things sire base : Nature hath meal and bran ...
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... bear bags Shall see their children kind . Full oft ' tis seen , Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities . Foul deeds will rise , Though all the earth o'erwhelm them , to men's eyes . Fruits that blossom first ...
... bear bags Shall see their children kind . Full oft ' tis seen , Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects Prove our commodities . Foul deeds will rise , Though all the earth o'erwhelm them , to men's eyes . Fruits that blossom first ...
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Page 64 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
Page 103 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 76 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give ; Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Page 15 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 74 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 101 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 53 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 132 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 94 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 20 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.