"Myself will straight aboard, and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate."
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"To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished."
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"All offences come from the heart."
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". . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done."
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"Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly; Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, Subjected tribute to commanding love, Against whose fury and unmatched force The aweless lion could not wage the fight Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand."
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"Love sees with the heart and not with mind."
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"I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love."
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"The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors."
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"Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?"
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"That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure."
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"What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours."
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"O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!"
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"He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe."
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"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep."
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"How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
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"Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole."
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"Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard."
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"Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch."
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