God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty?

Quote by Shakespeare

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I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

A ministering angel shall my sister be.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its...

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its...

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere,...

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere,...

For my part, it was Greek to me.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Joy delights in Joy

Joy delights in Joy

This above all; to thine own self be true.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would...

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would...

No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken

No profit grows where there is no pleasure taken

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

Time is the stuff between pay days

Time is the stuff between pay days

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than...

A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than...

But like of each thing that in season grows.

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

To saucy doubts and fears.

To saucy doubts and fears.

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of...

But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of...