This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
William ShakespeareThe means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress.
William ShakespeareO, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare