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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"Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart."

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"Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it."

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"For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night."

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"Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?"

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"Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven."

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"O God of battles! steel my soldiers’ hearts. Possess them not with fear."

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"In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."

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"Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached."

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"'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."

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"Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other"

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"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!"

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"What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?"

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"With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true."

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"By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion."

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"Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure."

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"In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid"

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"Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest,hurts the deepest,but feels the strongest"

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