'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. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes. Hamlet -- I. 2. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes deeds ill done! King John -- IV. 2. DELAY. That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. Hamlet -- IV. 7. DELUSION. For love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place; Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. Hamlet -- III. 4. DISCRETION. Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion. Othello -- II. 3. DOUBTS AND FEARS. I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Macbeth -- III. 4. DRUNKENNESS.