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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"Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards."

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"But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament."

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"It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off."

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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare"

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"Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion."

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"O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams."

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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!"

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"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death."

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"A pair of star-crossed lovers."

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"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."

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"This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire."

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"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

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