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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
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The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
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William Shake‐ſpeare
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No evil lost is wailed when it is gone.
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
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When the sea was calm all ships alike showed mastership in floating.
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The love of wicked men converts to fear That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
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Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
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O war! thou son of Hell!
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In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.
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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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I am thy father's spirit Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.
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Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun it shines everywhere.
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To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!
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What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
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Full of wise saws and modern instances.
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To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
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God defend the right.
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...lest too light winning make the prize light.
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