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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"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"

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"What is aught but as 'tis valued?"

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"Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?"

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"Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!"

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"Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."

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"Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep."

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"Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot."

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"Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog."

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"Sin will pluck on sin."

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"Be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech."

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"Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible."

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"O villains, vipers, dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!"

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"You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go."

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"O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!"

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"Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips."

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"Men have marble, women waxen, minds."

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"To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just."

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"Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions."

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"Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes."

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