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At my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets; and, at my birth, The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward. - [Signs] At once, good night-- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. - [Good Night] At your age, The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble, And waits upon the judgment. - [Age] Authority bears of a credent bulk That no particular scandal once can touch;; But it confounds the breather. - [Authority] Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice of the top. - [Authority] Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood, is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, Which thou dost glare with! - [Ghosts] Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men; As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept All by the name of dogs: the valued file Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, The housekeeper, the hunter, every one According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed. - [Dogs] Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. - [Travel] Back-wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes. - [Calumny] Balm of hurt minds, great second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. - [Sleep] Bashful sincerity and comely love. - [Sincerity] Be advis'd; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. - [Prudence] Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee. - [Confidence] Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - [Action] Be just and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's. - [Justice : Patriotism] Be sad, good brothers, for, by my faith, it very well becomes you: sorrow so royally in you appears, that I will deeply put the fashion on. - [Sadness] Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. - [Secrecy] Beauty doth varnish age. - [Beauty] Beauty is a witch, against whose charms faith melteth into blood. - [Beauty] Beauty itself doth itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator. - [Beauty] Beauty lives with kindness. - [Beauty] Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. - [Time] Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven. - [Age] Behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge. - [Navigation] Best men oft are moulded out of faults. - [Faults] Displaying page 7 of 187 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187
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