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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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Wishers were ever fools.
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 15
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy.
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 9
Make not your thoughts your prisons.
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, sc. 2
Those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest; and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, sc.2
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, sc.3
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, where none will sweat but for promotion.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc. 3
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7
Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty, but kindly.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, sc.3
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene i, Lines 15-17
I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 5
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, sc. 1
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, sc.1
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, when birds do sing... sweet lovers love the spring.
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc. 3
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
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William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, sc.2
Though thou speak'st truth, methink thou speak'st not well.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, sc. 6
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
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William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II, sc. 1
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