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AND in some sort these wants of mine are

crown'd,

That I account them blessings; for by these
Shall I try friends.

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Timon of Athens. Act II, Sc. 2.

ISERY acquaints a man with strange
bedfellows.

The Tempest. Act II, Sc. 2.

PATIENCE

E patient, for the world is broad and wide.
Romeo and Juliet. Act III, Sc. 3.

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E that will have a cake out of the wheat
must needs tarry the grinding.

Troilus and Cressida. Act I, Sc. 1.

Friendship's Test

The

Democracy of Misfortune

Opportunity

Sine

qua non

ableness

OW poor are they that have not patience! Reason-
What wound did ever heal but by de-
grees?

Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by

witchcraft;

And wit depends on dilatory time.

Othello. Act II, Sc. 3.

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Music
and
Men's
Lives

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How sour sweet music is,

When time is broke and no proportion kept!
So it is in the music of men's lives.

King Richard II. Act V, Sc. 5.

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The reason is, your spirits are attentive;
For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neigh-
ing loud,

Which is the hot condition of their blood,
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
Or air of music touch their ears,
You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,

any

Their savage eyes
turn'd to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music; therefore the
poet

Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and
floods;

Since naught so stockish, hard and full of rage,
But music for the time doth change his nature.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet
sounds,

Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

Merchant of Venice. Act V, Sc. 1.

INCE my dear soul was mistress of her

Schoice,

And could of men distinguish, her election
Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast
been

As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,
A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
Hast ta'en with equal thanks.

Hamlet. Act III, Sc. 2.

Nobility

The Test

N the reproof of chance

Lies the true proof of men. The sea being
smooth,

How many shallow bauble boats dare sail
Upon her patient breast, making their way
With those of nobler bulk!

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage

The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold

The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,

Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perseus' horse: Where's then the saucy
boat,

Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
Co-rivall'd greatness? either to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so
Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide,
In storms of fortune; for, in her ray and
brightness,

The herd hath more annoyance by the breese
Than by the tiger; but when the splitting
wind

Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
And flies fled under shade, why, then, the thing

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As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympa-
thise,

And, with an accent tun'd in selfsame key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.

Troilus and Cressida. Act I, Sc. 3.

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HINGS past redress are now with me
past care.

THI

King Richard. Act II, Sc. 4.

all remedy

THINGS without all remedy what's done

Should be

regard:

is done. Macbeth. Act III, Sc. 2.

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HE'S truly valiant that can wisely suffer

The worst that man can breathe, and

make his wrongs

His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,
carelessly,

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,
To bring it into danger.

TH

Timon of Athens. Act III, Sc. 5.

HINGS that are past are done with me.
Tis thus;

The Stoic

True
Courage

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