OPPRESSION.

 

Julius Caesar -- IV. 3.

 

 

OPPRESSION.

 

Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:

 

His faults lie open to the laws; let them,

 

Not you, correct them.

 

King Henry VIII. -- III. 2.

 

 

PAST AND FUTURE.

 

O thoughts of men accurst!

 

Past, and to come, seem best; things present, worst.

 

King Henry IV., Part 2d -- I. 3.

 

 

PATIENCE.

 

How poor are they, that have not patience!--

 

What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?

 

Othello -- II. 3.

 

 

PEACE.

 

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;

 

For then both parties nobly are subdued,

 

And neither party loser.

 

King Henry IV., Part 2d -- IV. 2.

 

I will use the olive with my sword:

 

Make war breed peace; make peace stint war; make each

 

Prescribe to other, as each other's leech.

 

Timon of Athens -- V. 5.

 

I know myself now; and I feel within me

 

A peace above all earthly dignities,

 

A still and quiet conscience.

 

King Henry VIII. -- III. 2.

 

 

PENITENCE.

 

Who by repentance is not satisfied,

 

Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased;

 

By penitence the Eternal's wrath appeased.

 

Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4.

 

 

PLAYERS.

 

All the world's a stage,

 

And all the men and women merely players:

 

They have their exits and their entrances;

 

And one man in his time plays many parts.

 

As You Like It -- II. 7.

 

There be players, that I have seen play,--

 

and heard others praise, and that highly,--

 

not to speak it profanely, that,

 

neither having the accent of Christians,

 

nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man,

 

have so strutted, and bellowed,

 

that I have thought some of nature's journeymen

 

had made men and not made them well,

 

they imitated humanity so abominably.

 

Hamlet -- III. 2.

 

 

POMP.

 

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?

 

And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

 

King Henry V. Part 3d -- V. 2.

 

 

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.

 

If to do were as easy as to know what were good

 

to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's

 

cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that

 

follows his own instructions: I can easier teach

 

twenty what were good to be done, than be one of

 

twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may

 

devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps

 

o'er a cold decree: such a bare is madness, the

 

youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel,

 

the cripple.

 

The Merchant of Venice -- I. 2