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  2. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears - Wikipedia

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    "Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.

  3. St Crispin's Day Speech - Wikipedia

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    The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt , which fell on Saint Crispin's Day , Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they are victorious.

  4. Sonnet 18 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.

  5. Sonnet 141 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 141 is the informal name given to the 141st of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets.The theme of the sonnet is the discrepancy between the poet's physical senses and wits (intellect) on the one hand and his heart on the other.

  6. The Evil That Men Do - Wikipedia

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    "The evil that men do", a quotation from Act 3, scene ii of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare; The Evil That Men Do, a 1904 novel by M. P. Shiel; The Evil That Men Do, a 1953 novel by Anne Hocking; The Evil That Men Do, a 1966 novel by Judson Philips, writing as Hugh Pentecost; The Evil That Men Do, a 1969 novel by John Brunner

  7. 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People - AOL

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    Happiness quotes from famous people. 21. “The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.” —Alexandra Stoddard (March 1997) 22. “Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do ...

  8. Sonnet 30 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 30 starts with Shakespeare mulling over his past failings and sufferings, including his dead friends and that he feels that he hasn't done anything useful. But in the final couplet Shakespeare comments on how thinking about his friend helps him to recover all of the things that he's lost, and it allows him stop mourning over all that has happened in the past.

  9. Sonnet 57 - Wikipedia

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    In this particular sonnet, the couplet acts as a summary of the basic sentiment of silent and stifled desire that fill the lines of the poem. "So true a fool is love that in your will, though you do anything, he thinks no ill," not only reiterates the dark romanticism that characterizes the entire sonnet, but Shakespeare also subtly establishes ...