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

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act III, sc. 2
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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, sc. 1
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His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
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I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 1
They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they starve with nothing.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I, sc. 2
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 2
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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 6
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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
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The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 9
Young in limbs, in judgement old.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc.7
Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, sc. 2
I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
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The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
To do a great right, do a little wrong.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc. 1
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act V, sc. 1

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