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- The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
- When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
- As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act IV, sc. 1
- The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act V, sc. 3
- O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 5
- There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3
- Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act I, sc. 2
- A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
- Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
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