Shakespeare: Care's an enemy to life

In honor of Tombili the cat, I am reposting this Shakespearean proverb from Twelfth Night:

Care's an enemy to life.

For more proverbs from Shakespeare, see Shakespeare Proverbs by Mary Cowden Clarke (1848). Meanwhile, you can find out more about the life and death of Tombili, Istanbul's internationally famous cat, here: A Dearly Departed Istanbul Cat Gets a Commemorative Statue.

Shakespeare: The web of our life

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn.

Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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Shakespeare: The fool

The fool doth think he is wise.

Shakespeare, As You Like It

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Shakespeare: All the world's a stage.

All the world's a stage.

Shakespeare, As You Like It

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Shakespeare: Beauty is a witch.

Beauty is a witch.

Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

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Shakespeare: Wild wat'ry seas

Lords of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas.

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors

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Shakespeare: Condemn the fault

Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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Shakespeare: Some by virtue fall.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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Shakespeare: Beauty lives with kindness.

Beauty lives with kindness.

Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Shakespeare: Merrily, merrily.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now,

under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: Rounded with a sleep.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: Dreams.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: Ceres' blessing.

Ceres' blessing so is on you.

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: Thought is free.

Thought is free.

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: As a cat laps milk.

They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: All the devils

Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.

Shakespeare, The Tempest

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Shakespeare: Winter of our discontent.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Shakespeare, Richard III

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Shakespeare: Course of True Love

Today's Shakespearean quote is from Midsummer Night's Dream:

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare: Learning

Today's Shakespearean quote is from The Taming of the Shrew:

O this learning, what a thing it is!

Shakespeare: Library

Today's Shakespearean quote is from Titus Andronicus:

Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow.