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Poem · Epic poem

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well exposed, as by his manners.

1596

★ 1.0

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

William Shakespeare

1597

★ 1.0

O you who hear within these scattered verses The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart In my first errant youthful days when I In part was not the man I am today.

1352

★ 1.1

For when this song is sung and past, My lute, be still, for I have done.

1557

★ 1.1

Play · History (play)

Thy wish was father…to that thought.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 1.1

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.1

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

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

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 1.1

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

Why, this is very midsummer madness!

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 1.1

Philosophical literature

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

1605

★ 1.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods; They kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

That way madness lies.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 1.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

Let's have one other gaudy night.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra · 1607

★ 1.1

And ruined love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

1621

★ 1.1

Play · History (play)

Doomsday is near. Die all, die merrily.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 1.2

But times do change and move continually.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens · 1599

★ 1.2

Play · History (play) · Tragedy (play)

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.2

Play · Comedy (play)

For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing · 1600

★ 1.2

A wise man will make more opportunties than he finds.

1625

★ 1.2

Political literature

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Areopagitica · 1644

★ 1.2

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