William Shakespeare Quotes About Prayer
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Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
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His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
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We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
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Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!
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Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.
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To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer.
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If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
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Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; I must be here confined by you, But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please: now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
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I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.
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O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
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Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
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Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
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We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
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