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"I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so."
"There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords."
"Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st Fools do those villains pity who are punished Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum? France spreads his banners in our noiseless land, With plumed helm thy state begins to threat, Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries 'Alack, why does he so?']"
"See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced."
"The sun with one eye vieweth all the world."
"Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky."
"Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye."
"How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!"
"Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes."
"The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach."
"My heart suspects more than mine eye can see."
"O hell! to choose love with another's eye."
"Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering."
"Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye."
"To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands."
"The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see."
"What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes"
"I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty"
"But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices."
"She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies."
