"I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature."
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"What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart."
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"Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere"
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"Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?"
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"Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!"
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"O, had I but followed the arts!"
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"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
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"Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate."
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"Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art." Feste: "But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool."
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"Thou art a very ragged Wart."
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"thou art the best o' the cut-throats"
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"So. Lie there, my art."
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"Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful"
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"A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences."
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"Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath."
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"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."
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"Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge."
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"My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand."
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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."
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"Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest."
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