“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges...”
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, 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". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays,[c] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He has invented over 1700 words some of which are common. ([Source][1].) [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Looking for the '[First Folio](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362289W/Plays)'?
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“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges...”
“Zu früh, befürcht ich; denn mein Herz erbangt Und ahnet ein Verhängnis, welches, noch Verborgen in den Sternen, heute Nacht Bei dieser Lustbarkeit den furchtbarn Zeitlauf Beginnen und das Zi...”
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness,...”
“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father,...”
“When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew”
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“LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get y...”
“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pie...”
“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”
“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!”
“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
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“Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento”
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“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.”
“No hope, but death, to bury up our shame. Phillip – Act IV, scene 7”
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“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
“O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention!”
“Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow”
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“কামনার রীতি এই কাম্য শোভনতা। গোলাপের রূপ যেন থাকে অমলিন; পাকা ফল নিয়ে আসে চ্যুতির বারতা তবু ভবিষ্যৎ রূপ না হোক বিলীন। ওমার রচনা দৃঢ় দীপ্তিতে উজ্জ্বল যদিও দহন করে নিজেকে সতত। ঐশ্বর্যের মাঝে দ...”
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“Love is holy.”