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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
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
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There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
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Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
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One woman is fair, yet I am well another is wise, yet I am well another virtuous, yet I am well but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
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Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
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When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.
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He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
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O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
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I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith.
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