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1. Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: (VIII)
2. 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 touched earthly faces." (XVII)
3. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, (XVIII)
4. Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,/My love shall in my verse live ever young. (XIX)
5. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,/The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;/But then begins a journey in my head/To work my mind, when body's work's expired: (XXVII)
6. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done (XXXV)
7. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit/Is poorly imitated after you; (LIII)
8. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,/So do our minutes hasten to their end; (LX)
9. Nay, if you read this line, remember not/The hand that writ it, for I love you so,/That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,/If thinking on me then should make you woe. (LXXI)
10. So are you to my thoughts as food to life, (LXXV)
11. My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming;/I love not less, though less the show appear (CII)
12. For nothing this wide universe I call/Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all. (CIX)
13. Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impdeiments. 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 (CXVI)
14. Before, a joy proposed: behind a dream, (CXXIX)
15. And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,/As any she belied with false compare. (CXXX)
16. Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan/For that deep wound it gives my friend and me! (CXXXIII)
17. Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,/And in our faults by lies we flattered be. (CXXXVIII)
18. Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press/My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain (CXL)
19. In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,/For they in thee a thousand errors note;/But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,/Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote. (CXLI)
20. Love is too young to know what conscience is,/Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? (CLI)

from the sonnets of William Shakespeare

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1. From Rumour's tongues they bring smooth comforts false, worse than true wrongs. (Henry IV, Part 2, Introduction)
2. O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention! (Henry V, I.Prologue)
3. Since I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain. (Richard III, I.i)
4. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! (Henry VI, Part 1, I.i)
5. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. (Henry VIII, I.i)
6. Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. (Richard II, II.i)
7. And many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. (Henry VI, Part 3, II.i)
8. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. (Henry IV, Part 1, II.iii)
9. ’Tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. (Henry VIII, II.iii)
10. While you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. (Henry IV, Part 1, III.i)
11. So mak'st thou faith an enemy to faith; and, like a civil war, sett'st oath to oath, thy tongue against thy tongue. (King John, III.i)
12. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more (Henry V, III.i)
13. Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. (Henry VI, Part 1, III.ii)
14. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day is crept into the bosom of the sea. (Henry VI, Part 2, IV.i)
15. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. (Henry VI, Part 2, IV.ii)
16. There is no sure foundation set on blood; no certain life achieved by others' death. (King John, IV.ii)
17. I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune; I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen (Richard III, IV.iv)
18. Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways. (Henry IV, Part 2, IV.v)
19. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. (Richard II, V.v)
20. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer. (Henry VI, Part 3, V.vi)

from the histories of William Shakespeare

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1. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, --honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire. (Timon of Athens, I.ii)
2. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity. (King Lear, I.ii)
3. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! (King Lear, I.iv)
4. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly (Macbeth, I.vii)
5. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. (Julius Caesar, II.ii)
6. Brevity is the soul of wit. (Hamlet, II.ii)
7. I will praise any man that will praise me. (Antony and Cleopatra, II.vi)
8. What is the city but the people? (Coriolanus, III.i)
9. His nature is too noble for the world (Coriolanus, III.i)
10. Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; who, though they cannot answer my distress...they will not intercept my tale: when I do weep, they humbly at my feet receive my tears and seem to weep with me. (Titus Andronicus, III.i)
11. O, I am fortune's fool! (Romeo and Juliet, III.i)
12. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. (Julius Caesar, III.ii)
13. O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! (Romeo and Juliet, III.ii)
14. Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. (Timon of Athens, III.v)
15. The eagle suffers little birds to sing. (Titus Andronicus, IV.iv)
16. Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well (Othello, V.ii)
17. Once put out thy light, thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat that can thy light relume. (Othello, V.ii)
18. I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. (Antony and Cleopatra, V.ii)
19. Good-night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! (Hamlet, V.ii)
20. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. (Macbeth, V.v)

from the tragedies of William Shakespeare

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1. If music be the food of love, play on (Twelfth Night, I.i)
2. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie (All's Well that Ends Well, I.i)
3. All his successors gone before him have done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may. (The Merry Wives of Windsor, I.i)
4. For death remembered should be like a mirror, who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error. (Pericles, Prince of Tyre, I.i)
5. O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day, which now shows all the beauty of the sun, and by and by a cloud takes all away! (Two Gentlemen of Verona, I.iii)
6. Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve. (Cymbeline, I.iv)
7. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. (Measure for Measure, II.i)
8. If I be waspish, best beware my sting. (The Taming of the Shrew, II.i)
9. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much. (Much Ado About Nothing, II.i)
10. Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues. (Love's Labours Lost, II.i)
11. Are you a god? would you create me new? Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield. (The Comedy of Errors, III.ii)
12. Tell me where is fancy bred, or in the heart, or in the head? (The Merchant of Venice, III.ii)
13. All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one. (Troilus and Cressida, III.ii)
14. Lord, what fools these mortals be! (A Midsummer Night's Dream, III.ii)
15. Exit, pursued by a bear (Winter's Tale, III.iii)
16. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. (The Tempest, IV.i)
17. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV.i)
18 The quality of mercy is not strain'd (The Merchant of Venice, IV.i)
19. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts. (As You Like It, IV.vii)
20. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in't! (The Tempest, V.i)

from the comedies of William Shakespeare

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