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As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a
buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
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God save the mark!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at I, iii)
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Now out of this nettle, danger, will I pluck the flower, safety.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at II, iii)
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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at II, iii)
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'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you,
my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower,
safety.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at II, iii)
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If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
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What! upon compulsion? No!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, iv)
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at III, i)
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I saw young Harry with his visor up.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Vernon at IV, i)
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In poison there is no physic.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Northumberland at I, i)
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Harcourt at IV, iv)
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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at IV, v)
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Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth Part III (Son at II, v)
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Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?
Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Plantagenet, Duke of York at II, iv)
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Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Reignier at III, ii)
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A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at III, i)
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And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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Weeds are shallow-rooted,
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden,
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Queen Margaret at III, i)
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Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at III, ii)
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What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at III, ii)
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Great men have reaching hands.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Say at IV, vii)
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The silver livery of advised age.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Young Clifford at V, ii)
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A woman's general. What should we fear?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Richard, Duke of Gloucester at I, ii)
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But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear,
That things ill got had ever bad success?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at II, ii)
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The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clifford at II, ii)
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The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clifford at II, ii)
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Her tears will pierce into a marble heart.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at III, i)
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Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv)
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A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Clarence at IV, viii)
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What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Edward at V, v)
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind!
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Gloucester at V, vi)
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The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at V, vi)
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Nothing can come of nothing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, i)
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Cordelia at I, i)
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Whose nature is so far from doing harms,
That he suspects none.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Edmund at I, ii)
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,
Weary of all shall want some.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is,
To have a thankless child.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at I, iv)
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Albany at I, iv)
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Truth is a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped, when
Lady, the brach, may stand by the fire and stink.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Fool at I, iv)
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O let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (Edgar at III, vi)
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Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: King Lear (King Lear at V, iii)
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