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"She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so."
"This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise."
"Exit, pursued by a bear."
"And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow."
"Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love."
"Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point."
"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear."
"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity."
"And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"
"O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!"
"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks"
"I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop."
"Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just."
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony"
"Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears."
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
"Parting is such sweet sorrow"
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."