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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"Come, Lady, die to live."

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"God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!"

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"If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth."

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"No stony bulwark can resist the love, and love dares what anyone can love."

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"It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut."

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"O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart."

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"Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth."

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"Thus may poor fools Belive false teachers."

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"How poor are they that have have not patients."

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"For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving."

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"What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"

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"There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both."

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"Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."

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"Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive."

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"The world must be peopled!"

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"I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."

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"thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce."

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"I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."

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"Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger."

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"Holy, fair, and wise is she; The heaven such grace did lend her, That she might admired be."

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