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Prayers: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Not with fond shekels of the tested gold; Or stones, whose rates are either rich, or poor, As fancy values them: but with true prayers, That shall be up at heaven and enter there, Ere sun-rise.— M. M. ii 2

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers. Deny us for our good; so find we profit— A.C. ii. 1

By losing of our prayers. When I would pray and think, I think and pray To several subjects: heaven hath my empty words; Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth, As if I did but only chew his name; And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil— M. M. ii. 4

Of my conception. When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,— R. III. iii. 7

So sweet is zealous contemplation. A thousand knees, Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, Upon a barren mountain, and still winter