Great Throughts Treasury

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William Shakespeare

Bashful sincerity and comely love.

Fraud | Heart | Heaven | Love | Tears | Words | Govern |

William Shakespeare

All these woes shall serve for sweet discourses in our time to come.

Heaven |

William Shakespeare

And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.

Heaven | Little | Love | Will | World | Worship |

William Shakespeare

As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle--and is not a buff jerkin in a most sweet robe of durance? King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)

Heaven | Love |

William Shakespeare

And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt.

Heaven | Love | Think |

William Shakespeare

At once, good night-- stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.

Birth | Earth | Heaven |

William Shakespeare

As thou urgest justice, be assured thou shalt have justice more than thou desirest.

Heaven | Light | Sense | Truth | Words |

William Shakespeare

But Hercules himself must yield to odds; and many strokes, though with a little axe, hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.

Heaven | Will |

William Shakespeare

But man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he’s most assur'd; his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep. Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Heaven | Love | Power | Thought | Will | Thought |

William Shakespeare

By a divine instinct men's minds distrust ensuing danger, as by proof we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Art | Heaven | Kill | Light | Shame | Will | Art | Think |

William Shakespeare

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Heaven |

William Shakespeare

But virtue, as it never will be moved, though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, so lust, though to a radiant angel linked, will sate itself in a celestial bed and prey on garbage. Two Gentlemen from Verona, Act ii, Scene 7

Fraud | Heart | Heaven | Love | Tears | Words | Govern |

William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i, Scene 1

Heaven | Little | Love | Will | World | Worship |

William Shakespeare

Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Heaven | Mortal | Nature | Peace |

William Shakespeare

Discretion is the better part of valour. [The better part of valour is discretion.] Henry IV, Part I, Act v, Scene 4

Heaven | Light | Guilty |

William Gurnall

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Heaven |

William Gurnall

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Heaven |

William Gurnall

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

Fear | Heaven | Hope |

William James

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Absolute | Body | Conscience | Consciousness | Education | Energy | God | Heaven | Life | Life | Meaning | Miracles | Present | Religion | Science | World | God | Think |

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds

Darkness | Dignity | Earth | God | Heaven | God |