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Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswageLusts, as earths honour was to them?
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Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
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No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."[The Autumnal]
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Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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I joy, that in these straits I see my west;
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That this world’s general sickness doth not lieIn any humour, or one certain part;But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart,Thou seest a hectic fever hath got holdOf the whole substance, not to be controlled,And that thou hast but one way, not to admitThe world’s infection, to be none of it.
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Dull sublunary lovers love
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Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
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