When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mockery makes.
The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief;
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

William Shakespeare

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What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mockery makes.

William Shakespeare

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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

William Shakespeare

Tags: humor love death marriage fool wedding olivia twelfth-night clown

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Good madonna, give me leave to
prove you a fool.

William Shakespeare

Tags: humor wit fool labels olivia twelfth-night clown

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Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It

William Shakespeare

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Who’s there?
Fool. Marry, here’s grace and a cod-piece; that’s a wise man and a fool.

William Shakespeare

Tags: king-lear-fool-storm

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He that has a little tiny wit,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
Though the rain it raineth every day.

William Shakespeare

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Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:
Are not you he?'

'Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.

William Shakespeare

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How now, spirit! whither wander you?

FAIRY
Over hill, over dale,
Through bush, through brier,
Over park, over pale,
Through flood, through fire,
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the fairy queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green.
The cowslips tall her pensioners be:
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours,
In those freckles live their savours:
I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:
Our queen and all our elves come here anon.

William Shakespeare

Tags: robin-goodfellow-fairies

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But then I sigh, with a piece of Scripture
Tell them that God bids us to do evil for good;
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

Tags: bible

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