1610s

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Topic

Self-knowledge Wisdom Fools

Speaker

Touchstone

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

He that dies pays all debts.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Debt

Speaker

Stephano

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Tempest

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tempest." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

Even as one heat another heat expels,
Or as one nail by strength drives out another,
So the remembrance of my former love
Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Topic

New love Lost love Falling in love Love

Speaker

Proteus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Two Gentlemen of Verona." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.

Cudgel thy brains no more about it.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Topic

Letting go

Speaker

Gravedigger

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Hamlet

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John

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Topic

Courage

Speaker

Austria

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Life and Death of King John

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Life and Death of King John." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "King John." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

Actions have consequences The road not taken The past

Speaker

Lady Macbeth

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Topic

When it rains it pours Suffering

Speaker

King Claudius

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Hamlet

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,
To dig the dust enclosed here;
Bleste be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

William Shakespeare

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Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Inscription on tomb

Medium

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Inscription on his grave. 23 April 1616. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, England, UK.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. Inscription on his grave. 23 April 1616. Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, England, UK.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Topic

Excess Desire

Speaker

Rosalind

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Th’ expedition of my violent love
Outrun the pauser, reason.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

Irrational love Love

Speaker

Macbeth

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

Letting go of the past Looking back The past

Speaker

Lady Macbeth

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

False appearances

Speaker

Malcolm

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Topic

Foreboding Apprehension

Speaker

Second Witch

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Macbeth

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

Political theory Setting up a government Government

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Cabinet-Council

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well

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Topic

Solving problems Personal responsibility Locus of control Free will Fate

Speaker

Helena

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

All’s Well that Ends Well

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

Passion

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Source

The Silent Lover

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen. London, 1655, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Sir Walter Raleigh to the Queen." The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

There's nothing of so infinite vexation
As man's own thoughts.

John Webster

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Topic

Inner turmoil Inner life

Speaker

Flamineo

Author

John Webster

Source

The White Devil

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1612 1610s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Webster, John. The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan. 1612, Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 6.

Current Citation

Webster, John. "The White Devil." The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, edited by Jane Kingsley-Smith. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 5, sc. 6.

What is the city but the people?

William Shakespeare

Coriolanus

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Topic

Cities

Speaker

Sicinius Velutus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Coriolanus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

Tis well said again,
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well.
And yet words are no deeds.

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII

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Topic

Words vs. actions

Speaker

King Henry VIII

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VIII

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1613 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!

William Shakespeare

The Life and Death of King John

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Topic

Incentives Temptation

Speaker

King John

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Life and Death of King John

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Life and Death of King John." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "King John." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.