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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
English dramatist and poet
(1564 - 1616)
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We, ignorant of ourselves,
  Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
    Deny us for our good; so find we profit,
      By losing of our prayers.
      - [Prayer : Providence]

Wear this for me,--one out of suits with fortune,
  That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.
      - [Gifts]

Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.
      - [Opinion]

Weep I cannot;
  But my heart bleeds.
      - [Grief]

Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain.
      - [Tears]

Welcome ever smiles,
  And Farewell goes out sighing.
      - [Welcome]

Well, 'tis no matter; honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off, when I come on? how then? Can honor set to a leg? no. or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no: Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honor? a word. What is in that word honor? What is that honor? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I'll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon; and so ends my catechism.
      - [Honor]

Well-apparelled April on the heel of limping winter treads.
      - [Winter]

Were man but constant, he were perfect.
      - [Constancy]

What a falling off was there.
      - [Degeneracy]

What a spendthrift he is of his tongue!
      - [Talking]

What all so soon asleep; I wish mine eyes
  Would with themselves shut up my thoughts.
      - [Sleep]

What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of provocation.
      - [Eyes]

What art thou, thou idol ceremony?
  What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
    Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
      - [Ceremony]

What art thou? Have not I
  An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
    Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not
      My dagger in my mouth.
      - [Blustering]

What bath this day deserv'd? what hath it done,
  That it in golden letters should be set
    Among the high tides in the calendar?
      - [Day]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.
      - [Necessity]

What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue
  In noise so rude against me?
      - [Slander]

What have kings
  That privates have not too, save ceremony?
      - [Kings]

What I should say
  My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,
    Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.
      - [Tears]

What is aught but as 'tis valued?
      - [Worth]

What is more miserable than discontent?
      - [Discontent]

What is the end of study? Let me know?
  Why, that to know, which else we should not know.
    Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?
      Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.
      - [Study]

What is the matter, that this distempered messenger of wet, the many-colored Iris, rounds thine eye?
      - [Tears]

What is wedlock forced, but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?
    Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,
      And is a pattern of celestial peace.
      - [Matrimony]


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