William Shakespeare
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"William Shakespeare" – 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. He is often called England's List of national poets/national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some Shakespeare's collaborations/collaborations, consist of about Shakespeare's plays/38 plays, Shakespeare's sonnets/154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major modern language/living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Courage mounteth with occasion.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

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...

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard...

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.

For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews, Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.