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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
English dramatist and poet
(1564 - 1616)
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So thanks to all at once and to each one,
  Whom we invite to see us crowned at Scone.
      - Macbeth (Malcolm at V, viii)
        [Books (Last Lines)]

They say be parted well and paid his score,
  And so, God be with him.
      - Macbeth (Siward at V, viii) [Parting]

Why then, God's soldier be he.
  Had I as many sons as I have hairs,
    I would not wish them to a fairer death:
      And so his knell in knolled.
      - Macbeth (Siward at V, viii) [Soldiers]

Your cause of sorrow
  Must not be measured by his worth, for then
    It hath no end.
      - Macbeth (Ross at V, viii) [Sorrow]

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them;
  But, in the less, foul profanation.
      - Measure for Measure [Wit]

His life is parallel'd
  E'en with the stroke and line of his great justice;
    He doth with holy abstinence subdue
      That in himself which he spurs on his power
        To qualify in others.
      - Measure for Measure [Abstinence]

Angelo,
  There is a kind of character in thy life,
    That to th' observer doth thy history
      Fully unfold.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i) [Character]

Escalus.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i)
        [Books (First Lines)]

I'll privily away; I love the people,
  But do not like to stage me to their eyes;
    Though it do well, I do not relish well
      Their loud applause and aves vehement,
        Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
          That does not affect it.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i) [Applause]

Now, good my lord,
  Let there be some more test made of my mettle
    Before so noble and so great a figure
      Be stamped upon it.
      - Measure for Measure (Angelo at I, i)
        [Worth]

Spirits are not finely touched
  But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
    The smallest scruple of her excellence
      But like a thrifty goddess she determines
        Herself the glory of a creditor,
          Both thanks and use.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i) [Spirit]

Acquaint her with the danger of my state;
  Implore her, in my voice, that she makes friends
    To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him.
      I have great hope in that; for in her youth
        There is a prone and speechless dialect,
          Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
            When she will play with reason and discourse,
              And well she can persuade.
      - Measure for Measure (Claudio at I, ii)
        [Argument]

Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
      - Measure for Measure (Pompey at I, ii)
        [Trout]

Thus can the demigod Authority
  Make us pay down for our offense by weight
    The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,
      On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.
      - Measure for Measure (Claudio at I, ii)
        [Authority]

In time the rod
  Becomes more mocked than feared.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, iii)
        [Proverbs]

We have strict statutes and most biting laws,
  The needful bits and curbs to headstrong jades,
    Which for this fourteen years we have let slip;
      Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,
        That goes not out to prey.
      - Measure for Measure
         (Vincentio, the Duke at I, iii) [Law]

Our doubts are traitors,
  And make us lose the good we oft might win,
    By fearing to attempt.
      - Measure for Measure (Lucio at I, iv)
        [Doubt : Proverbs]

I not deny,
  The jury passing on the prisoner's life
    May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
      Guiltier than him they try; what's open made to justice,
        That justice seizes; what knows the laws
          That thieves do pass on thieves?
      - Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, i)
        [Judgment]

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;
  Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
      - Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
        [Mercy]

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
      - Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
        [Proverbs : Sin]

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
  Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
    And some condemned for a fault alone.
      - Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
        [Proverbs : Sin]

We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
  Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
    And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
      Their perch and not their terror.
      - Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, i)
        [Law]

Alas, ala:
  Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once,
    And He that might the vantage best have took,
      Found out the remedy.
      - Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
        [Redemption]

Because authority, though it err like others,
  Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself
    That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom,
      Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
        That's like my brother's fault; if it confess
          A natural guiltiness such as is his,
            Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
              Against my brother's life.
      - Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
        [Faults : Self-examination]

But man, proud man,
  Drest in a little brief authority,--
    Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
      As make the angels weep.
      - Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
        [Proverbs]


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