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“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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“Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, i)
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“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man,
And bitter shame hath spoiled the sweet world's taste,
That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Lewis at III, iv)
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“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Lewis at III, iv)
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“And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault,
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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“With taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Salisbury at IV, ii)
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“Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Salisbury at IV, iii)
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“Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at V, i)
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“Anger is like
A full hot horse, who being allowed his way,
Self-mettle tires him.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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“To climb steep hills
Requires slow pace at first.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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“We may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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“New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
(Nay, let 'em be unmanly), yet are followed.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iii)
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“Our content
Is our best having.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Old Lady at II, ii)
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“Alas! sir,
In what have I offended you? What cause
Hath my behaviour given to your displeasure?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Queen Katharine at II, iv)
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“A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“By that sin fell the angels.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“I know myself now, and I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“My high-blown pride
At length broke under me, and now has left me
Weary and old with service.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii)
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“But we are all men
In our own natures frail.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chancellor at V, iii)
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“A fool's bolt is soon shot.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Orleans at III, vii)
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“There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distill it out;
For our bad neighbor makes us early stirrers,
Which is both healthful, and good husbandry.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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