William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

William Shakespeare was an English playwright and poet, renowned for his profound exploration of human emotions in works like 'Hamlet' and 'Othello.'

Born
April 23, 1564
Died
April 23, 1616
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"This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy."

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"Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar."

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"Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."

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"Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!"

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"O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!"

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"But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."

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"I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope."

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"How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on."

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"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."

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"My pride fell with my fortunes."

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"O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!"

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"What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river."

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"In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn."

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"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities."

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"The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"

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"They are but beggars that can count their worth."

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