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William Shakespeare

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.


— William Shakespeare


#art

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!


— William Shakespeare


#julius-caesar #mark-antony #william-shakespeare #death

For where thou art, there is the world itself, with every several pleasure in the world, and where thou art not, desolation.


— William Shakespeare


#art

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.


— William Shakespeare


#business

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.


— William Shakespeare


#inspirational

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.


— William Shakespeare


#eyes #fire #nourishment #sustenance #women

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.


— William Shakespeare


#friendship

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.


— William Shakespeare


#brain #humor #macbeth #shakespeare #thinking

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.


— William Shakespeare


#destination #destiny #journeys #love #love-story






About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quotes




Did you know about William Shakespeare?

According to Shakespearean scholar James Shapiro in Julius Caesar "the various strands of politics character inwardness contemporary events even Shakespeare's own reflections on the act of writing began to infuse each other". In 1598 the cleric and author Francis Meres singled him out from a group of English writers as "the most excellent" in both comedy and tragedy. Many of his plays were publiWilliam Shakespeared in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

In the 20th century his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith.

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