As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
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Heaven - the treasury of everlasting life.
Interpretation
Heaven represents a state of eternal life and fulfillment beyond the physical realm.
In this quote, Shakespeare refers to 'Heaven' as a metaphorical place where everlasting life and true value reside. It suggests that true wealth is not material but rather spiritual, encompassing love, fulfillment, and peace that transcend the struggles of earthly existence.
In practice
During a speech about the meaning of life, one could invoke this quote to emphasize the importance of spiritual wealth over material success.
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!
Give it an understanding, but no tongue.
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.
There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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