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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
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William Shakespeare, "King Henry V", Act 3 scene 1
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
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William Shakespeare, "King Henry V", Act 5 scene 1
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
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William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part II", Act 4 scene 1
And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
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William Shakespeare, "King Henry VI Part III", Act 2 scene 1
'T is better to be lowly born,
And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.
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William Shakespeare, "King Henry VIII", Act 2 scene 3
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4
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This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
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William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 5 scene 7
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Although the last, not least.
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1
Nothing will come of nothing.
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 4
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 3 scene 4
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The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 4 scene 7
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
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William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 1 scene 1
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 4 scene 4
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 2
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4
A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
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William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost", Act 1 scene 1
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