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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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The glass of fashion and the mould of form
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my hearts core.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change.
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 2
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 4
Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, sc. 4
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 3
A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 5
Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 7
How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
Let Hercules himself do what he may, the cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, sc. 1
He will give the devil his due.
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William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2
The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
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William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2
I do not speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in woes also.
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William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, sc. 4
While you live tell truth and shame the devil.
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William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act III, 1
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