Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.
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, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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I do know of these that... only are reputed wise for saying nothing.
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Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
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How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us.
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So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.
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Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?
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Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.
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