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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
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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I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
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I have been long a sleeper but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.
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Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do.
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All that glitters is not gold.
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I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
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Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
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The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
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For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
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Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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