William Shakespeare ✓

(1564–1616) stage actor Kingdom of England

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[Wikidata] English playwright and poet (1564–1616)... | [Wikipedia] William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaboration

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• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed. Give
• Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. Absence
• Pray you now, forget and forgive. Forget
• God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I… Babe
• Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. Environment
• I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. Cat
• 'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love. Brief
• All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich… Afore
• My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! Charity
• Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… Arrive
• God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! Bless
• Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. Charity
• Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of… Charity
• She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or… Amiable
• The readiness is all. All
• A harmless necessary cat. Cat
• What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. Care
• Be! That's a statement. Fake
• I am not in the giving vein today. Charity
• Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be… Access
• Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to… Adulterate
• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers. Charity
• Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave. Charity
• Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do… Benefits
• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide. Abide

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