Timon of Athens -- I. 2.

Timon of Athens -- I. 2.

COMFORT.

Men

Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief

Which they themselves not feel; but tasting it,

Their counsel turns to passion, which before

Would give preceptial medicine to rage,

Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,

Charm ache with air, and agony with words:

No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience

To those that wring under the load of sorrow;

But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency,

To be so moral, when he shall endure

The like himself.

Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1.

Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it.