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XLVII



Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,

And each doth good turns now unto the other:

When that mine eye is famish\'d for a look,

Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,

With my love\'s picture then my eye doth feast,

And to the painted banquet bids my heart;

Another time mine eye is my heart\'s guest,

And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:

So, either by thy picture or my love,

Thy self away, art present still with me;

For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,

And I am still with them, and they with thee;

  Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight

  Awakes my heart, to heart\'s and eye\'s delight.

 	--William Shakespeare

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Ronald Reagan

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or
believe to be beautiful.
William Morris