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

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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.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
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The common herd.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 2
So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, sc. 3
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 2
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 2
I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc. 4
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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: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, sc.1
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I am constant as the northern star, of whose true fix'd and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, sc.1
When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 2
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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.: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3
He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.: William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, sc. 4
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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.: William Shakespeare, King John, Act III, sc. 4
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess: William Shakespeare, King John, Act IV, sc. 2
How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well.: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, sc. 4
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, sc. 4
Fortune, that arrant whore, ne'er turns the key to the poor.: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, sc. 4
We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, sc. 4
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I am a man more sinn'd against than sinning.: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 2
That way madness lies.: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 4
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Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?: William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III, sc. 4
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