The Life Without Passion

They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmovéd, cold, and to temptation slow,--
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English playwright, poet, and actor. Widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

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