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

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Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 2
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
Have you not heard it said full oft, a woman's nay doth stand for naught.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
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How hard it is for women to keep counsel!: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
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To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Men have marble, women waxen, minds.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
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Do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, sc. 2
To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, sc. 1
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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, sc. 3

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