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- But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid are far more fair than she. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 2
- Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 1
- I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- If love be blind, it best agrees with night.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 2
- Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 3
- O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, sc. 5
- How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet LIV
- Sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet XCIV
- My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;
I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CII
- And ruin'd love when it is built anew,
Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXIX
- I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXLVII
- My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXLVII
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
- Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: 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. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI
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