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

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What's done cannot be undone.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow... And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 3
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Blow, wind! Come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.: William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, sc. 5
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act I, sc.4
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 1
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, sc. 2
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, sc. 1
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 1
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Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, such a dependency of thing on thing, as e'er I heard in madness.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 1
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Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 1
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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act V, sc. 5
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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, sc. 1
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