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Quotation from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all”
Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling)
Hamlet declines Horatio's offer to excuse him from the duel, echoing Matthew 10:29 and accepting whatever comes.
Citation: "There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all" — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1524, modern spelling). (id hamlet-q12)
Portrait: Hamlet Q1 Frontispiece 1603, William Shakespeare, Public domain.
