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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done Wake, and find nothing.
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
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
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William Shake‐ſpeare
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
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What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, But they shall find awaked in such a kind Both strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means, and choice of friends, To quit me of them throughly.
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It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
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Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
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Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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