A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Neglect: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O, then, beware; Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves: Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.— T. C. iii. 3
O negligence, Fit for a fool to fall by!— H. VIII. iii. 2.
And you are now sailed into the north of my lady's opinion, where you will hang like an icicle in a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour, or policy.— T. N. iii. 2.
They pass'd by me As misers do by beggars.— T. C. iii. 3.
Omittance is no quittance.— A. V. iii. 5,
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