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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Poet · English · 1564 – 1616

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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, _x000D_ Brags of his substance, not of ornament: _x000D_ They are but beggars that can count their worth; _x000D_ But my true love is grown to such excess, _x000D_ I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
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O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.
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Fie, fie upon her! _x000D_ _x000D_ There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, _x000D_ _x000D_ Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out _x000D_ _x000D_ At every joint and motive of her body.
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Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, _x000D_ _x000D_ I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world _x000D_ _x000D_ To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: _x000D_ _x000D_ We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
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A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences.
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Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon
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See where she comes apparelled like the spring.
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The pleasing punishment that women bear.
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Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give.
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The hind that would be mated by the lion _x000D_ _x000D_ Must die for love.
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Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
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A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
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Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
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For what is wedlock forced but a hell,_x000D_ _x000D_ An age of discord and continual strife?_x000D_ _x000D_ Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,_x000D_ _x000D_ And is a pattern of celestial peace.
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The instances that second marriage move _x000D_ _x000D_ Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
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There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men
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