Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Rightly to be great

Is not to stir without great argument,

But greatly to find quarrel in a straw

When honour 's at the stake.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.