Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die. Rich. III., v. 4.

I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Ham., i. 2.

I have this great commission, / From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts / In any breast of strong authority, / To look into the blots and stains of right. King John, ii. 1.

I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably. Ham., iii. 2.

I hear, yet say not much, but think the more. 15 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. Ham., ii. 2.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession. Bacon.

I hold it cowardice / To rest mistrustful where a noble heart / Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. 3 Hen. VI.

I hold it truth, with him who sings / To one clear harp in divers tones, / That men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things. Tennyson.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; / 20 A stage, where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.