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 hell! to choose love with another's eye."

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"We are such stuff that dreams are made of."

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"So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving."

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"One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."

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"I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine."

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"Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!"

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"You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; And being men, hearing the will of Caesar, It will inflame you, it will make you mad."

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"Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?"

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"I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself."

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"I swear again, I would not be a queen For all the world."

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"My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing."

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"Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering."

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"The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die."

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"I see a man's life is a tedious one."

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"Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe."

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"The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase Even as our days do grow!"

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