“As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd Or Night kept chain'd below.”
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“To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.”
“It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?”
“You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.”
“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”
“It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured.”
“Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.”
“I can no longer live by thinking.”
“Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?”
“I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.”
“The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.”
“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares, And think perchance they'll sell; if not, The lustre of the better yet to show Shall show the better.”
“Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.”
“I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.”
“What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?”
“Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth.”
“I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.”
“in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.”
“Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.”
“Stop thinking for once in your life!”