For it falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhile it w...
Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
Thy wish was father to that thought.
O shame! Where is they blush?
Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
Foul whisperings are abroad.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
God befriend us as our cause is just!
They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
It is not enough to speak but to speak truth
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the...
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
If music be the food of love, play on.