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

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'T is the breathing time of day with me.

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

There 's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is 't to leave betimes?

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

Now the king drinks to Hamlet.

Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

A hit, a very palpable hit.