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A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. Comedy of Errors, Act i, Scene 1
All these woes shall serve for sweet discourses in our time to come.
Heaven |
As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance? King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
At once, good night-- stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.
But Hercules himself must yield to odds; and many strokes, though with a little axe, hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.
But man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he’s most assur'd; his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep. Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Heaven |
But virtue, as it never will be moved, though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, so lust, though to a radiant angel linked, will sate itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage. Two Gentlemen from Verona, Act ii, Scene 7
Discretion is the better part of valour. [The better part of valour is discretion.] Henry IV, Part I, Act v, Scene 4
The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.
William Howells, fully William Dean Howells, aka The Dean of American Letters
And the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb.
Eternity |