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Quotes from Troilus and Cressida — William Shakespeare

1564–1616 England

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Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger.

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For honour travels in a strait so narrow,
Where one but goes abreast.

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The thing of courage
As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.

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* * * more abhorr'd
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

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Welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.

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Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise.

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The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure.

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The error of our eye directs our mind:
What error leads must err.

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Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.

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And in such indexes (although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes) there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.

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Fie, fie upon her!
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.

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My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores
Of will and judgment.

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I see my reputation is at stake:
My fame is shewdly gor'd.

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He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

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Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing;
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

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To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

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Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles.

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Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

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The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
Observe degree, priority and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom, in all line of order.

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O, that her hand,
In whose comparison all whites are ink,
Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure
The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense
Hard as the palm of ploughman.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.