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1564–1616 England
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Are you call'd forth from out a world of men,
Richard III (1591)
Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!
Eat, speak, and move, under the influence of the most received star; and though the devil lead the measure such are to be followed.
Sir, for a quart d'écu he will sell the fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the entail from all remainders.
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
And he, a marble to her tears, is washed with them, but relents not.
Measure for Measure (1603)
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
The basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.
Henry V (1599)
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.
Othello (1603)
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
Julius Caesar (1599)
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier; so they sell bullocks.
These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse.
Othello (1603)
Use every man after his desert, and who should
Didst thou never hear
Keep * * * thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
King Lear (1608)
But one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to hornpipes.
The saying is true "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."
Henry V (1599)
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