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William Shakespeare
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Biography : English poet, playwright and actor.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare





In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare





What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare





O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare





If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare





Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare





One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare





Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare





A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare





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. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare





The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare





'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare





Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare





Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare





Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare





They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare





And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare





The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare





The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream / 





For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare





Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare





When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare





I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare





If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare





All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare





Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare





Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare





Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare





Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare





Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare






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