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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many things I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet xxx
Exit, pursued by a bear.
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William Shakespeare, Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.
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William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, muddy,
ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
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William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act V, sc. 2
Every why hath a wherefore.
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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
How comes it, that thou art then estranged from thyself?
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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.
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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act II, sc. 2
Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?
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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.
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William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1
His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they starve with nothing.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 2
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
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William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
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