Troilus and Cressida -- III. 3. NEWS, GOOD AND BAD. Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell Themselves, when they be felt. Antony and Cleopatra -- II. 5. OFFICE. 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter, and affection, Not by the old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Othello -- I. 1. OPPORTUNITY. Who seeks, and will not take when offered, Shall never find it more. Antony and Cleopatra -- II. 7. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries: And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. Julius Caesar -- IV. 3. OPPRESSION. Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct them. King Henry VIII. -- III. 2. PAST AND FUTURE. O thoughts of men accurst! Past, and to come, seem best; things present, worst. King Henry IV., Part 2d -- I. 3. PATIENCE. How poor are they, that have not patience!-- What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? Othello -- II. 3. PEACE. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser. King Henry IV., Part 2d -- IV. 2. I will use the olive with my sword: Make war breed peace; make peace stint war; make each Prescribe to other, as each other's leech. Timon of Athens -- V. 5. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. King Henry VIII. -- III. 2. PENITENCE. Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath appeased. Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4. PLAYERS. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. As You Like It -- II. 7. There be players, that I have seen play,-- and heard others praise, and that highly,-- not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Hamlet -- III. 2. POMP. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must. King Henry V. Part 3d -- V. 2. PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.