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"If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'"
"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends."
"The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."
"I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?"
"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
"I wonder men dare trust themselves with men."
"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all."
"The apparel oft proclaims the man."
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
"Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks."
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
"There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
"His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never."