"But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise"
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"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."
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"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."
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"Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood."
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"The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away."
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
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"Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."
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"But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men."
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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . ."
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"O braggart vile and damned furious wight!"
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"Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee."
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"Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just."
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"Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish."
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"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."
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"Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew."
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"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils."
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"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents."
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"O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!"
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"Prosperity's the very bond of love."
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"Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
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