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And it is great to do that thing that ends all other deeds, which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. Antony and Cleopatra, Act v, Scene 2
And ruin'd love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. Sonnet 119
As I have seen a swan wth bootless labour swim against the tide and spend her strength with over-matching waves. Henry VI, Act I, Scene 4
Blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, that they are not a pipe for fortune's finger to sound what stop she please. Hamlet, Act iii, Scene 2
But words are words; I never did hear that the bruised heart was pierced through the ear. Othello, Act I, Scene 3
Blind fear that seeing reason leads finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear. To fear the worst oft cures the worst. Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 8
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
Absolute | Action | Feelings | Impression | Judgment | Man | Reason | Sacred | Sense | Understanding | Intellect |
Choked with ambition of the meaner sort. Henry VI, Part II, Act ii, Scene 4
He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.
Conscience | Government | Individual | Judgment | Government |
Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? Henry IV, Act ii, Scene 2