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 earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb."

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"But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day."

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"Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it."

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"Use almost can change the stamp of nature."

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"Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest."

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"I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."

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"As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket."

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"A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out."

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"Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."

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"Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south."

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"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds."

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"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."

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"God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"

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"My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except."

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