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Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare

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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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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.
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Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate.
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Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.
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Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.
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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
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I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
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I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
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