"Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth"
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"An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
"Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!"
"Faint heart never won fair maid."
"My heart suspects more than mine eye can see."
"LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship."
"By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love"
"You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!"
"For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
"Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well."
"Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan."
"God send everyone their heart's desire!"
"No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given."
"The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
"And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs."
"To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth"
"Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold."
"For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas"
"You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart."
"It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim."