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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
792
    And thereby hangs a tale.
          The Taming of the Shrew. Act iv. Sc. 1.
793
    My cake is dough.
          The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 1.
794
    A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,—
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
          The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
795
    Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
          The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
796
    ’T were all one
That I should love a bright particular star,
And think to wed it.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.
797
    The hind that would be mated by the lion
Must die for love.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.
798
    Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 1.
799
    Service is no heritage.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
800
    He must needs go that the devil drives. 1
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
801
    My friends were poor but honest.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
802
    Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 1.
803
    I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 2.
804
    From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer’s deed.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.
805
    They say miracles are past.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.
806
    All the learned and authentic fellows.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.
807
    A young man married is a man that ’s marr’d.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.
808
    Make the coming hour o’erflow with joy,
And pleasure drown the brim.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 4.
809
    No legacy is so rich as honesty.
          All ’s Well that Ends Well. Act iii. Sc. 5.
 
Note 1.
See Heywood, Quotation 114. [back]