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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"A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost."

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"Muster your wits; stand in your own defence."

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"I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth"

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"whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after. i will kiss thy lips some poisin doth hang on them, to help me die with a restorative. thy lips are warm. yea noise then ill be brief oh happy dagger this is thy sheath. there rust and let me die."

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"O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!"

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"Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks."

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"Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!"

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"Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom!"

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"This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."

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"Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft."

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"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it."

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"The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens."

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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone."

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"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."

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"Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand."

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"The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."

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"Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

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