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Office: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Having both the key of officer and office. He was a fool; For he would needs be virtuous: That good fellow, If I command him, follows my appointment; I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother, We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons. H. VIII. ii. 2. Fear not your advancement; I will be the man yet that— H. IV. PT. II. v. 5.

shall make you great.

Office, Its Evils

If I am traduc'd by tongues, which neither know My faculties, nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing, -let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers; which ever, As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new trimm'd; but benefit no further Than vainly longing. What we oft do best, By sick interpreters, (once weak ones) is Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft, Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up For our best act. If we shall stand still, 8 In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at, We should take root here where we sit, or sit State statues only.— H. VIII. i. 2

Insolence Of

I'd have beaten him like a dog, but for disturbing the lords within.— C. iv. 5.