I Always Feel Happy You Know Why Tell Me Onde Again Why You Cant Work
The Statement
AAP FactCheck examined a Facebook post from July 31, 2018 by Center Touching featuring an image of English language writer William Shakespeare.
The post contained a quote that reads: "Shakespeare said: I always experience happy. Yous know why? Because I don't look annihilation from anyone. Expectations always hurt, Life is short. So love your life. Be Happy. And keep grin. Just live for yourself & before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Earlier you pray. Forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before y'all hate, dearest. Earlier you quit, try. Before yous die, live."
Center Touching describes itself as "an inspirational folio offering you enlightening quotes, heart touching stories and motivational articles to make your life more beautiful". Its Facebook page has over 150,000 likes.
The mail service had been shared more 11,000 times and attracted more than than 80 comments and 3100 reactions.
The Assay
Tiffany Stern, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Birmingham, brash AAP FactCheck the quote had "zilch in mutual with Shakespeare … and is not fifty-fifty a parody of the way he wrote".
"It is not in early mod ('Shakespearean') English. It is not written beautifully. Its sentiments are easy and unabashedly upbeat (Shakespeare is oftentimes melancholy and commonly complex)," she said.
Dr David McInnis, a senior lecturer in Shakespeare Studies from The University of Melbourne agreed with Professor Stern, advising AAP FactCheck, "Shakespeare never wrote anything to that effect".
"For one thing, he only uses the discussion "expectations" on 1 occasion, when Roderigo says (in Othello), "The jewels you accept had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half accept corrupted a votarist: you have told me she hath received them and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect and associate, but I find none," Dr McInnis said
"I have no idea who fabricated up this quotation only it has zero to do with William Shakespeare."
AAP FactCheck analysed the paradigm and found the second part of the quote was attributed to American poet William Arthur Ward from a poem titled, "Before Yous". The second part of the Facebook quote was: "… before y'all speak, mind. Before you write, think. Before you lot spend, earn. Before yous pray. Forgive. Before you hurt, feel. Before you hate, dearest. Earlier you quit, endeavour. Before yous die, live".
Mr Ward was born in 1921 in Louisiana and died in 1994. He wrote more than 100 poems, articles and meditations published in various magazines including Reader'southward Assimilate and This Week. He'due south listed as i of America'due south most quoted writers of "inspirational maxims".
AAP FactCheck found Shakespeare did mention the phrase "life is short" in at least one of his works. In Henry Iv Part i, he wrote: "O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness malevolently were too long, If life did ride upon a dial'southward betoken, However ending at the arrival of an hr."
The Verdict
Based on this bear witness, AAP FactCheck plant the quote attributed to William Shakespeare to be false. Function of the quote was taken from a poem by American writer William Arthur Ward.
- Fake – The Facebook post is faux.
Showtime published August 5, 2019 12:12 AEST
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