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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.
The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.
Beware what spirit rages in your breast; for one inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.
Those who are the hardest for me to love are probably those who need my love the most.
Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.
To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
Besides, our nearness to the King in love Is near the hate of those love not the King.
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.
Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.
And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?
Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself.
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.