It so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. Much Ado About Nothing -- IV. 1. BRAGGARTS. It will come to pass, That every braggart shall be found an ass. All's Well that Ends Well -- IV. 3. They that have the voice of lions, and the act of bares, are they not monsters? Troilus and Cressida -- III. 2. CALUMNY. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Hamlet -- III. 1. No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? Measure for Measure -- III. 2. CEREMONY. Ceremony Was but devised at first, to set a gloss On faint deeds, hollow welcomes. Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. Timon of Athens -- I. 2. COMFORT. Men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion, which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage, Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, Charm ache with air, and agony with words: No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, To be so moral, when he shall endure The like himself. Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1. Well, every one can master a grief, but he that has it. Idem -- II. COMPARISON. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle. So doth the greater glory dim the less; A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by; and then his state Empties itself, as does an inland brook Into the main of waters. Merchant of Venice -- V. 1. CONSCIENCE. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. Hamlet -- III. 1. 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. Coriolanus -- III. 1. CONTENTMENT.