Sleep
Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;
But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain
Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.
–Romeo and Juliet,
Act II, Scene iii
Tag: Tragedies
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November 29
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November 27
Self-Inflicted
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.–Troilus and Cressida,
Act III, Scene iii -
November 24
Find a Glimmer
The bright day is done,
And we are for the Dark.— Antony and Cleopatra,
Act V, Scene ii -
November 17
More Is Less
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.–Macbeth,
Act I, Scene vii -
November 13
Look for the Purpose
Though this be madness, yet there is a method in’t.
—Hamlet,
Act II, Scene ii -
November 10
Suspicion Distorts
As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not.–Othello,
Act III, Scene iii -
November 7
All Greek to Me
But those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads.
But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
–Julius Caesar,
Act I, Scene ii
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