XLVI



Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,

How to divide the conquest of thy sight;

Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,

My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.

My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,--

A closet never pierc'd with crystal eyes--

But the defendant doth that plea deny,

And says in him thy fair appearance lies.

To side this title is impannelled

A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;

And by their verdict is determined

The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part:

  As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,

  And my heart's right, thy inward love of heart.

 	--William Shakespeare

LXXI



No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:

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.

O! if,--I say you look upon this verse,

When I perhaps compounded am with clay,

Do not so much as my poor name rehearse;

But let your love even with my life decay;

  Lest the wise world should look into your moan,

  And mock you with me after I am gone.

 	--William Shakespeare

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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Th  new	Shakespeare	08-15-05 22:44
I think when we get those moments where things are just too hard  new	Shakespeare	09-27-05 03:12
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CXL Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tie  new	Shakespeare	09-27-05 04:48
XXXIII Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter th  new	Shakespeare	10-18-05 06:21
CXXVII In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it  new	Shakespeare	09-28-05 14:23
We shape our buildings-therafter they shape us. -Sir Winston Chu  new	Shakespeare	10-02-05 21:27
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end i  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 07:28
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World Wa  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 07:29
God is subtle but he is not malicious. --Albert Einstein  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 07:43
XXXIV Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And mak  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 07:47
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 07:48
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --Al  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 08:03
CVI When in the chronicle of wasted time I see description  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 08:35
CXLIV Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 09:09
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow,  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 10:52
XLV The other two, slight air, and purging fire Are both w  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 12:19
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I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. --Albert Einstei  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 15:03
Though argument does not create conviction, lack of it destroys b  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 16:08
The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions ov  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 17:26
LXXIII That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yell  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 17:49
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. T. S. Eli  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 20:06
CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those  new	Shakespeare	10-12-05 20:13
The only way to have a friend is to be one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 20:29
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the d  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 22:27
XLVIII How careful was I when I took my way, Each trifle u  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-12-05 22:28
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XXXIX O! how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 00:25
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 03:03
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fac  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-13-05 11:14
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Founding Fathers Quotes An unlimited power to tax involves, ne  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 16:07
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XLVII Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took, And eac  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-13-05 17:22
XVII Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-13-05 19:15
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its  new	Shakespeare	10-13-05 21:19
My gaze on Beatrice, hers on Heaven, In less time than an arrow s  new	Shakespeare	10-14-05 00:16
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Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country  new	Shakespeare	10-14-05 03:11
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XLVI Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 12:15
XXVIII How can I then return in happy plight, That am deba  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-17-05 12:41
Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 14:04
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. --Albert Eins  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 14:54
XX A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, Hast t  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 15:45
LXXII O! lest the world should task you to recite What mer  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 15:47
A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce 1842-191  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 16:40
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 17:07
CL O! from what power hast thou this powerful might, With  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 17:12
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. --Albert Einst  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-17-05 17:41
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 17:51
CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Ti  new	Shakespeare	10-17-05 20:24
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyda  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-17-05 20:35
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; h  new	Shakespeare	10-18-05 20:20
LXXVI Why is my verse so barren of new pride, So far from  new	Shakespeare	10-19-05 01:25
CXV Those lines that I before have writ do lie, Even those  new	Shakespeare	10-19-05 02:18
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No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram w  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-19-05 08:20
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integra  new	Shakespeare	10-19-05 08:20
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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-20-05 19:16
The only real valuable thing is intuition. --Albert Einstein  new	Shakespeare	10-20-05 22:38
Beauty deprived of its proper foils an adjuncts ceases to be enjo  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-21-05 03:15
Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 03:43
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. --Albert Einst  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 04:34
Founding Fathers Quotes But the safety of the people of Americ  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 08:54
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot  new	Hamlet	10-21-05 17:43
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integra  new	Shakespeare	10-21-05 19:09
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XCVI Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; Some sa  new	Shakespeare	10-22-05 10:24
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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in  new	Shakespeare	10-23-05 04:51
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow so  new	Shakespeare	10-23-05 08:45
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. --Albert Einstei  new	Henry David Thoreau	10-25-05 23:41
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I From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby b  new	Ralph Waldo Emmerson	10-26-05 06:42
XLIII When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For al  new	Shakespeare	10-26-05 06:52

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