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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Greatest English dramatist & poet [more author details]
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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
The moon, like to a silver bow, new-bent in heaven.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc. 1
In the night, imagining some fear, how easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
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William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, sc.1
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 2
He must needs go that the devil drives.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 3
There is no fettering of authority.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc. 3
Oft expectations fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act II, sc. 4
I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not' eternal.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act III, sc. 2
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act IV, sc. 3
When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
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William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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