Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a Modern InstanceChapman and Hall, 1848 - 145 pages |
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... honour cites a virtuous youth . A young man married is a man that's marr'd . A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies three - thirds , and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with ...
... honour cites a virtuous youth . A young man married is a man that's marr'd . A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies three - thirds , and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with ...
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... Honours thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers . Happy man be his dole ! He that runs fastest gets the ring . He that is giddy thinks the world turns round . How sometimes nature will betray its folly , Its ...
... Honours thrive When rather from our acts we them derive Than our foregoers . Happy man be his dole ! He that runs fastest gets the ring . He that is giddy thinks the world turns round . How sometimes nature will betray its folly , Its ...
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... Honour's train Is longer than his foreskirt . He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding . He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another . He that is proud eats up himself ; pride is 47.
... Honour's train Is longer than his foreskirt . He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding . He that hath a will to die by himself fears it not from another . He that is proud eats up himself ; pride is 47.
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... Honour and policy , like unsever'd friends , I ' the war do grow together . Hollow men , like horses hot at hand , Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ; But when they should endure the bloody spur , They fall their crests ...
... Honour and policy , like unsever'd friends , I ' the war do grow together . Hollow men , like horses hot at hand , Make gallant show and promise of their mettle ; But when they should endure the bloody spur , They fall their crests ...
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... honours , Like our strange garments , cleave not to their mould , But with the aid of use . New - made honour doth forget men's names . Nature craves All dues be rendered to their owners . Nature , as it grows again toward earth , Is 74.
... honours , Like our strange garments , cleave not to their mould , But with the aid of use . New - made honour doth forget men's names . Nature craves All dues be rendered to their owners . Nature , as it grows again toward earth , Is 74.
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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 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 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 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.
Page 32 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Page 16 - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin, That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, Though they are made and moulded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
Page 63 - O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was: For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.