"Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make"
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics."
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"The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come, And make their bed with thee."
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"Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating."
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"The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious."
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"What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*"
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"Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
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"Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?"
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"Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor."
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"I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."
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"How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?"
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."
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"That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air."
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"O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !"
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"Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
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"If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee."
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"O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena"
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"O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint."
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