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William Shakespeare, Hamlet Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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.

Exit, pursued by a bear.



Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].

This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

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