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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"What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide."

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"A young man married is a man that's marred."

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"Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass."

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"Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls."

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"For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give."

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"Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast..."

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"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"

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"Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love, Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity; so fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues."

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"Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot."

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"I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience."

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"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."

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"I am wrapped in dismal thinking."

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"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."

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