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Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come if it be not to come, it will be now if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Special
Fall
Come
Whit
Sparrow
Sparrows
Defy
Readiness
Providence

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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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Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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I do repent but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this, and this with me, That I must be their scourge and minister. I will bestow him, and will answer well The death I gave him. So again good night. I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
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Too much to know is to know nought but fame And every godfather can give a name.
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies
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Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.
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As merry as the day is long.
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We must every one be a man of his own fancy.
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To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
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Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
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