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O, this life
Is nobler than attending for a check,
Richer than doing nothing for a robe,
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:
Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine
Yet keeps his book uncrossed.
Topic: Pride
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it
Cry 'No recovery.'
Topic: Pride
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at II, iii)
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his
own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but
in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Topic: Pride
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Agamemnon at II, iii)
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I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads.
Topic: Pride
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ajax at II, iii)
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It may do good; pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.
Topic: Pride
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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She bears a duke's revenues on her back,
And in her heart she scorns our poverty.
Topic: Pride
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Margaret, Queen to King Henry at I, iii)
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I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This many summers in a sea of glory,
But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me,
Weary and old with service, to the mercy
Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Topic: Pride
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
Topic: Pride
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i)
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Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in
erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers
had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused
printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and
dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.
Topic: Printing
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Jack Cade at IV, vii)
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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Topic: Prison
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, iii)
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I have been studying how I may compare
This prison where I live unto the world;
And, for because the world is populous,
And here is not a creature but myself,
I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Topic: Prison
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at V, v)
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In delay there lies no plenty.
Topic: Procrastination
Source: None
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O my prophetic soul!
My uncle?
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
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There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life, which in their seeds
And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Topic: Prophecy (Prophesy)
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Warwick at III, i)
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There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a
penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make
it felony to drink small beer.
Topic: Prosperity
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Jack Cade at IV, ii)
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Besides, you know
Prosperity's the very bond of love,
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together
Affliction alters.
Topic: Prosperity
Source: The Winter's Tale (Camillo at IV, iv)
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All is well ended, if the suit be won.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at epilogue), (altered)
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Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Countess of Rossillion at I, i)
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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We must every one be a man of his own fancy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, i)
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The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii)
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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.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii)
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Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
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The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
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What our contempts do often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at I, ii)
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Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at II, v)
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Her very silence, and her patience,
Speak to the people, and they pity her.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Duke Frederick at I, iii)
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O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at I, iii)
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Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Celia at I, iii)
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Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;
'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look
Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (First Lord at II, i)
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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All the world's a stage.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Jaques at II, vii)
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude:
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Amiens at II, vii)
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Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like it (Touchstone at III, ii)
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Omittance is no quittance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: As You Like It (Phebe at III, v)
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Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Syracuse at II, ii)
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I'll potch at him some way;
Or wrath or craft may get him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Coriolanus (Aufidius at I, x)
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O, a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee dear; and my true lip
Hath virgined it e'er since.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at V, iii)
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Breaking his oath and resolution, like
A twist of rotten silk.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Coriolanus (Aufidius at V, vi)
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That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, vi)
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Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She prized it once.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at II, iv)
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For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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The sweat of industry would dry and die,
But for the end it works to.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Cymbeline (Balarius at III, vi)
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Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, vi)
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Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Cymbeline (Caius Lucius at IV, ii)
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A little more than kin, and less than kind!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, i)
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To persevere
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at I, ii)
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We ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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