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, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!"

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"You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."

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"The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove."

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"Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"

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"It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim."

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"Can we outrun the heavens?"

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"Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?"

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"Words to deeds cold breath gives."

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"One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."

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"Thou ominous and fearful owl of death."

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"Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge."

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"My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand."

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"He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger."

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"I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion."

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"For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally."

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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

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"Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them."

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