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"As love is full of unbefitting strains, All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye, Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms, Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll To every varied object in his glance"
"For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?"
"Love adds a precious seeing to the eye."
"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?"
"If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death."
"Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye."
"O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art."
"Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them."
"My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment."
"He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes."
"Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves."
"Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs."
"All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity."
"Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself."
"To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought."
"Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste."
"What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!"
"When most I wink, then do my eyes best see"
"What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye"
"Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?"
