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Retirement: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

To forswear the full stream of the world, and to live in a— A. Y. iii. 2.

nook merely monastic. Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say,- This is no flattery; these are counsellors A. P. ii.l That feelingly persuade me what I am. Let me not live,- Thus his good melancholy oft began, On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, When it was out, - Let me not live, quoth he After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses All but new things disdain; whose judgments are Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies Expire before their fashions: This he wish'd I, after him, do after him wish too, Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, I quickly were dissolved from my hive, To give some labourers room.— A. W. i. 2

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,— A. Y. ii. 1

Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.— H. IV. PT. L. v. 1

To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we, Unburden'd, crawl toward death.— K. L. i. 1