Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
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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Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.
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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.
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I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. -
O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
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There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
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