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WORDS (and deeds) [609].

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:

And yet words are no deeds.

WORKHOUSE [862].

King. Henry VIII., Act iii. Sc. 2.

this hard house

More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised:

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And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,

That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion,

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Jaques. As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7.

WRONG [826].

The oppressor's wrong,

Hamlet. Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. I.

WRONG-DOING (persistence in) [632].

thus to persist

In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,

But makes it much more heavy.

Hector. Troilus and Cressida, Act ii. Sc. 2.

WRONG-HEADEDNESS [364].

You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,
You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts
And prick my tender patience to those thoughts
Which honour and allegiance cannot think.

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boys, who, being mature in knowledge,

Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,

And so rebel to judgement.

Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra, Act i. Sc. 4.

YOUTH (and age) [838].

for youth no less becomes

The light and careless livery that it wears
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,

Importing health and graveness.

King. Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.

YOUTH (contumacious) [148].

Young blood doth not obey an old decree:

Biron. Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3.

YOUTHFUL MISANTHROPY [183].

he hears merry tales and smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

Portia. Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 2.

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