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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.”
“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
“Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time.”
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.”
“Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?”
“And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”
“My soul is in the sky.”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
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