CONTENT.
My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen; my crown is called "content;"
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
King Henry VI., Part 3d - III. 1.
CONTENTION.
How, in one house, Should many people, under two commands, Hold amity?
King Lear -- II. 4.
When two authorities are set up, Neither supreme, how soon confusion May enter twixt the gap of both, and take The one by the other.
Coriola.n.u.s -- III. 1.
CONTENTMENT.
"Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
King Henry VIII. -- II. 3.
COWARDS.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar -- II. 2.
CUSTOM.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat Of habit"s devil, is angel yet in this: That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock, or livery, That aptly is put on: Refrain to-night: And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy: For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either curb the devil, or throw him out With wondrous potency.
Hamlet -- III. 4.
A custom More honored in the breach, then the observance.
Idem -- I. 4.
DEATH.
Kings, and mightiest potentates, must die; For that"s the end of human misery.
King Henry VI., Part 1st -- III. 2.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Julius Caesar -- II. 2.
The dread of something after death, Makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others we know not of.
Hamlet -- III. 1.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Measure for Measure -- III. 1.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too.
Cymbeline -- V. 5.
DECEPTION.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek; A goodly apple rotten at the heart; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Merchant of Venice -- I. 3.
DEEDS.