William Shakespeare ( 10 of 368 )
Our content
Is our best having.
Our content
Is our best having.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
But we are all men
In our own natures frail.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
