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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"My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf."

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"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"

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"Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed."

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"Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell."

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"What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care."

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"O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable"

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"Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."

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"What light through yonder window breaks?"

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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

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"Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!"

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"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

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"This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory."

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"O, full of scorpions is my mind!"

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"Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares."

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