Shakespeare's Morals Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Searching out all things, thou in most men's acts Wilt find but baseness. SOPHOCLES, Fragments, 1. 732. The learned pate Ducks to the golden fool: all i... more »s oblique ; There 's nothing level in our cursed natures, But direct villany. Timon of Athens, Act. iv. Sc. 3,1.17. Every man with his affects is born, Not by might master'd but by special grace : Love's Labour's Lost, Act i. Sc. I, 1. 152. The Innocence Of Childhood. Polixines. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the And bleat the one at the other : what we changed Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd That any did. Had we pursued that life, HEREDITARY SIN. 23 And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven Boldly ' not guilty;' the imposition clear'd Hereditary ours. Hermione. By this we gather You have tripp'd since. Pol. O my most sacred lady ! Temptations have since then been born to 's. The Winter's Tale, Act i. Sc. 2,1. 67. of flp1ft proaucea They that fare ill become not only deaf, But even though they gaze, they see not clear What lies before them1 .... Folly proves itself Of wickedness true sister. Sophocles, Fragments, . 663. WHEN we in our viciousness grow hard — O misery on 't! — the wise gods seel our eyes ; In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; make us Adore our errors ; laugh at 's, while we strut To our confusion.2 Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Sc. 13, 1. 1n. I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes ; and things outward Do draw the inward qualities after them, To suffer all alike. Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Sc. 13, 1. 31. Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To cred...« less