No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
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William Shakespeare
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About William Shakespeare
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 collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are perf…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by William ShakespeareHow poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
But men are men the best sometimes forget.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat.…
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, his acts being seven ages.