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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"O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come."

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"And nature must obey necessity."

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"There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing."

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"Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion."

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"Who can control his fate?"

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"How every fool can play upon the word!"

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"The fewer men, the greater share of honor."

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"Hate pollutes the mind."

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"But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will."

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"I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't."

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"Examine well your blood."

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"They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain."

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"A good wit will make use of anything."

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"Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it."

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"There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail."

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"Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon."

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"We must follow, not force Providence."

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"That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged."

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"All offences come from the heart."

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