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“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.”

Source: Macbeth: Playgoer's Edition

“All that glisters is not gold.”

Prince of Morocco, reading Portia's note, Act II, scene vii; this is the source of the popular paraphrase "All that glitters is not gold."
Source: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)

“true apothecary thy drugs art quick”

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“No matter where; of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”

Variant: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Source: Richard II