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«I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.»
«I am all the daughters of my father's house,And all the brothers too.»
«Journeys end in lovers' meeting; every wise man's son doth know»
«When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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«You come most carefully upon your hour.»
«Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; Compare dead happiness with living woe; Think that thy babes were fairer than they were, And he that slew them fouler than he is: Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse: Revolving this will teach»
«She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so»
«Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
crab, crabbed, crabs, morn, pleasance
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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