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Then wisely weigh Our sorrow with our comfort.

Then wisely weigh Our sorrow with our comfort.

Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance

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William Shakespeare
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Approximate author period: c. 1590 AD · renaissance
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 568; printed byline: Shakespeare; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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William Shakespeare: Historical painted portrait

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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