Society and the World
William Shakespeare
To persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness; ’tis unmanly grief: It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.
William Shakespeare
But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
William Shakespeare
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.
William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird’s throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion.
William Shakespeare
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion.
William Shakespeare
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
William Shakespeare
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?
William Shakespeare
O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords In our own proper entrails.
William Shakespeare
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm’d so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
William Shakespeare
Put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
William Shakespeare
Great Caesar fell. O! what a fall was there, my countrymen; Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.
William Shakespeare
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
Some to the common pulpits, and cry out, “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”