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Quotation by Shakespeare
I to the world am like a drop of water,
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth
(Unseen, inquisitive), confounds himself.
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them (unhappy), lose myself.
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth
(Unseen, inquisitive), confounds himself.
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them (unhappy), lose myself.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. "To the world" means in relation to the world; "confounds himself" means mingles and loses its identity. Antipholus of Syracuse, in The Comedy of Errors, act 1, sc. 2, l. 34-40.
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