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Fortitude: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate To grace it with your sorrows; bid that welcome Which comes to punish us, and we punish it, Seeming to bear it lightly.— A C. iv. 12.

In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men: The sea being smooth, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast, making their way With those of nobler bulk! But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, Bounding between the two moist elements, Like Perseus' horse: Where's then the saucy boat, Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now Co-rivall'd greatness? either to harbour fled, Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so, Doth valour's show, and valour's worth, divide In storms of fortune: for, in her ray and brightness, The herd hath more annoyance by the brize, Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, And flies fled under shade, -why, then, the thing of courage, As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Returns to chiding fortune.— T. C. i. 3.

Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate. T.C.v.3.