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Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
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Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life
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Tears water our growth.
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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
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I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
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For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?
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Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
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Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand.
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When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.
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