King Henry VI., Part 1st -- III. 2.
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Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come, when it will come.
Julius Caesar -- II. 2.
The dread of something after death,
Makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others we know not of.
Hamlet -- III. 1.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Measure for Measure -- III. 1.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too.
Cymbeline -- V. 5.
DECEPTION.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart;
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice -- I. 3.
DEEDS.
Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes.
Hamlet -- I. 2.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds,
Makes deeds ill done!
King John -- IV. 2.
DELAY.
That we would do,
We should do when we would; for this would changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many,
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,
That hurts by easing.
Hamlet -- IV. 7.
DELUSION.
For love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul;
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place;
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.
Hamlet -- III. 4.
DISCRETION.
Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.
Othello -- II. 3.
DOUBTS AND FEARS.
I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Macbeth -- III. 4.
DRUNKENNESS.
Boundless intemperance.
In nature is a tyranny; it hath been
Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne,
And fall of many kings.
Measure for Measure -- I. 3.
DUTY OWING TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS.
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy
Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence,
But never taxed for speech.
All's Well that Ends Well -- I. 1.
EQUIVOCATION.
But yet
I do not like but yet, it does allay
The good precedence; fye upon but yet:
But yet is as a gailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
Antony and Cleopatra -- II. 5.
EXCESS.
A surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
Midsummer Night's Dream -- II. 3.
Every inordinate cup is unblessed,
and the ingredient is a devil.
Othello -- II. 3.
FALSEHOOD.
Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women hold in hate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona -- III. 2.
FEAR.
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Where it should guard.