John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued)
1639 A king of shreds and patches.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1640 Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1641 How is t with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1642 This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstasy Is very cunning in.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1643 Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word; which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1644 Confess yourself to heaven; Repent whats past; avoid what is to come.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1645 Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1646 Refrain to-night, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1647 I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1648 For t is the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar.
Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.
1649 Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. 1
Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3.
1650 A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3.