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William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His 39 plays, 154 sonnets, and other poems have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His words have become woven into everyday speech across the world.

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

Time

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“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

— William Shakespeare

Sympathy

“We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.”

— William Shakespeare

Time

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”

— William Shakespeare

Men

“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.”

— William Shakespeare

Good

“Time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

Time

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”

— William Shakespeare

Men

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

Patience

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

— William Shakespeare

God

“But men are men the best sometimes forget.”

— William Shakespeare

Best

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

Love

“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

— William Shakespeare

Best

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

— William Shakespeare

Patience

“Men's vows are women's traitors!”

— William Shakespeare

Men

“Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

Death

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

— William Shakespeare

Happiness

“I bear a charmed life.”

— William Shakespeare

Life

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

— William Shakespeare

Art

“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. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

— William Shakespeare

Life

“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”

— William Shakespeare

Faith

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”

— William Shakespeare

Hope