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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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Though fortunes malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 3
Trust not him that has once broken faith.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act IV, sc. 4
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, Act V, sc. 6
In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 1
I know myself know; and I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
Nature does require her times of preservation.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act III, sc. 2
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
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William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act IV, sc. 2
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
His life was gentle, and the elements so mix'd in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world 'This was a man!'
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
Men at some time are the masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
The common herd.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 3
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 2
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 2
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 4
Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1
I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, sc.1
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 2
There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
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William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3
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