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Quotes by Shakspeare

13 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

How full of briers is this working-day world!— filed under Adversity

Virtue is choked with foul ambition.— filed under Ambition

He hath a daily beauty in his life.— filed under Beauty

Now God be praised, that to believing souls, Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair !— filed under Belief

Charity - gently to hear, kindly to judge.— filed under Charity

The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.— filed under Earth

There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.— filed under God's Presence

O God! Thy arm was here, And not to us, but to Thy arm alone, Ascribe we all.— filed under God's Providence

However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.— filed under God's Sovereignty

Oh, that men should put an enemy in Their mouths, to steal away their brains.— filed under Intemperance

Consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation; we do pray for mercy ; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.— filed under Mercy

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go.— filed under Prayer

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teachings.— filed under Preaching