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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"The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious."

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"We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels."

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"It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with."

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"My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things."

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"Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love."

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"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

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"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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"All's well if all ends well."

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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."

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"Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught."

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"Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done."

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"Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil."

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"I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection."

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"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

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"He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle."

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"I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman."

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"A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one."

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"Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies."

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