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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]

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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare, 'Measure for Measure'
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare, 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.: William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' Act III, scene ii
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.: William Shakespeare, 'Twelfth Night'
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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.: William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
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Vows were ever brokers to defiling.: William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint
But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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The moon, like to a silver bow, new-bent in heaven.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
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Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc. 1
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In the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc.1
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.: William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.: William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.: William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
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