onstrous malefactor.
Antony and Cleopatra -- II. 5.
EXCESS.
A surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.
Midsummer Night's Dream -- II. 3.
Every inordinate cup is unblessed,
and the ingredient is a devil.
Othello -- II. 3.
FALSEHOOD.
Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent,
Three things that women hold in hate.
Two Gentlemen of Verona -- III. 2.
FEAR.
Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds
Where it should guard.
King Henry VI., Part 2d -- V. 2.
Fear, and be slain; no worse can come, to fight:
And fight and die, is death destroying death;
Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath.
King Richard II. -- III. 2.
FEASTS.
Small cheer, and great welcome, makes a merry feast.
Comedy of Errors -- III. 1.
FILIAL INGRATITUDE.
Ingratitude! Thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou showest thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster.
King Lear -- I. 4.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child
Idem -- I. 4.
FORETHOUGHT.
Determine on some course,
More than a wild exposure to each cause
That starts i' the way before thee.
Coriolanus -- IV. 1.
FORTITUDE.
Yield not thy neck
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
King Henry VI., Part 3d -- III. 3.
FORTUNE.
When fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
King John -- III. 4.
GREATNESS.
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness!
This is the state of man: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;
And,--when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is ripening,--nips his root,
And then he falls, as I do.
King Henry VIII. -- III. 2.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Twelfth Night -- II. 5.
HAPPINESS.
O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes.
As You Like It -- V. 2.
HONESTY.
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