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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"Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words."

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"My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!"

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"All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift."

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"'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love."

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"Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book."

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"Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter."

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"To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."

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"A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood."

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"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"

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"ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."

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"Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied."

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"I do begin to have bloody thoughts."

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"Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved."

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"Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep."

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