Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.
William Shakespeare
Related You were used to say extremity was the trier of spirits; that common chances common men could bear; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated l... I. F. STONE How great will it be if humans could achieve deeper understanding while still floating above the sea... NORAIN My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. SIR THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike... THOMAS BROWNE It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of
faces there should be none alike. SIR THOMAS BROWNE If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day. MICKEY SPILLANE Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The common soldier showed he was quite up to the job. LARRY RANDOLPH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so... CLAUDE MONET Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the mi... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The study showed that head injuries are very common. One in every six injuries in the study was a he... DR. ROALD BAHR A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairn... TERRY EAGLETON People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthri... ARLO GUTHRIE For in tremendous extremities human souls are like drowning men; well enough they know they are in p... HERMAN MELVILLE Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagi... OSCAR WILDE The boat from India was a crowded place; all long sea voyages on boats feel crowded. When you are st... C.S. WOOLLEY The Sea Pro range of boats are the perfect addition to our new boat portfolio. They are high quality... IAN ROBERTS He was amazing in his ability to get to the core of the issue and bring some common sense to bear. DAVID BECK It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. MARK TWAIN It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. MARK TWAIN If you were upset about an ugly pimple on the end of your nose, you might try to feel better by keep... LEMONY SNICKET Male buerkitshi are certainly more common than females today, although eagle hunting has always been... ADRIENNE MAYOR She was inclusive. If you were around, you were included in whatever was going on. She could bring t... SARAH PETERSEN They don't need it. Most of the time they ask for it because at one point in time, it was a common t... JAY FOLEY Two-thirds of snowboard injuries affect the upper extremities, with the most common injuries occurri... DEAN WALKER Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one... CHING NING CHU In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word i... ORSON WELLES It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so... MARK TWAIN The narrow, middle, common-ground is the life-raft in a turbulent sea of extremism. We are overwhelm... BRYANT MCGILL When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you.... JOHN O'DONOHUE For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the
anvil, bear-When you are the h... EDWIN MARKHAM For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the h... EDWIN MARKHAM When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used t... ANNA SUI A common woman attracts common men but a SPECIAL woman magnets special men. Therefore, make your att... CHARITY RAPHAEL I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th... RHYS IFANS I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native ton... ERIC SMITHEY Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will m... CLARENCE DARROW No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ard... THOMAS JEFFERSON We were lucky here because the chaos happening outside never really affected us. The white staff nev... VUSUMZI KOSE I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil... WILLEM DAFOE At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that yo... NATALIE WOOD For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear -- when you ar... EDWIN MARKHAM For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are... EDWIN MARKHAM It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so r... MARK TWAIN Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Common sense, common care, common prudence, were all sunk in Mrs. Dashwood's romantic delicacy. JANE AUSTEN Homo is a common name to all men. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who ... KAY CANNON The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER Without common ideas, there is no common action, and without common action men still exist, but a so... ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live. PAUL MCCARTNEY When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim PLEASEFINDTHIS I sighed again, tipping my head back. My skin was still flushed, whether from anger or adrenaline or... JULIE KAGAWA I very much admired Lancaster. George Clooney reminds me of him today. Not all the macho, swinging a... 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KILROY J. OLDSTER There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) eit... JAMES NEWMAN That was just common sense. DR. ROBERT LEHR All blood is alike ancient. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They're common-sense things that people utilize in their own homes. The policy was to make official ... ALAN WAGNER We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespear... UTA HAGEN Pretty much everywhere in Steamboat is very conducive to bear interaction because there's lots of mo... LIBBIE MILLER Between Los Angeles and Detroit (auto shows, held in recent months), there were plenty of those vehi... KARL BRAUER One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artis... COMMON Everything I'm saying shouldn't be taken so serious. I'm playing, but at the same token,... COMMON I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're ... 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Which holds but till thy news be uttered,
And the... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ten day ago I drowned these news in tears;
And now, to add more measure to your woes,
I come t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office, and his tongue
Sounds ever a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's villainous news abroad. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If't be summer news,
Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st
But keep that count'nance st... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the emnity o' th' air,
To be a comra... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now we sit close about this taper here
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Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
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Where beauty... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no vice so simple but assumes
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(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
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Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
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Thou bear'st thy... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut lo... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner:
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It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest wa... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,
I knit my handkercher about your brows--
The... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so;
They are not ever jealous for the cause,
But jealou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it fee... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess
(As I confess it is my nature's p... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
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