Month: November 2024

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“Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; and he wants wit that wants resolved will to learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 7:00 am

“Maids, in modesty, say No to that which they would have the profferer construe Ay.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.2 (emphasis in original)

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“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.” – Ralph Ellison, “The Art of Fiction,” Paris Review

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“As the most forward bud is eaten by the canker ere it blow, even so by love the young and tender wit is turn’d to folly; blasting in the bud, losing his verdure even in the prime, and all the fair effects of future hopes.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.1

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:44 am

“To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment’s mirth with twenty watchful, tedious nights: if haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; if lost, why then a grievous labour won; however, but a folly bought with wit, or else a wit by folly vanquished.” – William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.1

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“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devis’d at first to keep the strong in awe.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 5.3

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“Why should calamity be full of words? Windy attorneys to their client woes, airy succeeders of intestate joys, poor breathing orators of miseries let them have scope: though what they do help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 4.4

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“Fearful commenting is leaden servitor to dull delay; delay leads impotent and snail-pac’d beggary.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 4.4

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“When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; when great leaves fall, then winter is at hand; when the sun sets, who doth not look for night? Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 2.3

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“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning, and the noontide night.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 1.4

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“They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall they dash themselves to pieces.” – William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King Richard III 1.3

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“Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, but cheerly seek how to redress their harms.” – William Shakespeare, King Henry VI – Third Part 5.4

Tetman Callis 0 Comments 6:52 am

“When the fox hath once got in his nose, he’ll soon find means to make the body follow.” – William Shakespeare, King Henry VI – Third Part 4.7