King Henry VI., Part 3d - III. 1.
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CONTENTION.
How, in one house,
Should many people, under two commands,
Hold amity?
King Lear -- II. 4.
When two authorities are set up,
Neither supreme, how soon confusion
May enter twixt the gap of both, and take
The one by the other.
Coriolanus -- III. 1.
CONTENTMENT.
'Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
King Henry VIII. -- II. 3.
COWARDS.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar -- II. 2.
CUSTOM.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this:
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock, or livery,
That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night:
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy:
For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
And either curb the devil, or throw him out
With wondrous potency.
Hamlet -- III. 4.
A custom
More honored in the breach, then the observance.
Idem -- I. 4.
DEATH.
Kings, and mightiest potentates, must die;
For that's the end of human misery.