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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." 
William Shakespeare 
"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
"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong." 
― William Shakespeare
"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. 
― William Shakespeare
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god." 
― William Shakespeare
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" 
― William Shakespeare
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." 
― William Shakespeare
"The course of true love never did run smooth." 
William Shakespeare 
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go." 
― William Shakespeare
"An overflow of good converts to bad." 
― William Shakespeare
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." 
William Shakespeare
"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. 
― William Shakespeare
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!" 
William Shakespeare
"Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind." 
William Shakespeare
"Listen to many, speak to a few." 
― William Shakespeare 
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 
William Shakespeare
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." 
― William Shakespeare 
"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
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse." 
William Shakespeare
"Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
very long for those who lament 
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal" 
― William Shakespeare
Nationality: English
Born: April 1564
Died: April 23, 1616 
Known For: Poet, Playwright, and Actor.