Brief as the lightning in the collied night;
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth,
And ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
So quick bright things come to confusion.
–Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene i
The bright day is done,
And we are for the Dark.
–Antony and Cleopatra,
Act V, Scene ii
O, learn to love; the lesson is but plain,
And once made perfect, never lost again.
–Venus and Adonis
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
–Merchant of Venice,
Act V, Scene i
What’s new to speak, what new to register,
That may express my love or thy dear merit?
Nothing, sweet… but yet, like prayers divine,
I must, each day say o’er the very same.
–Sonnet CVIII (108)
But all’s brave that youth mounts and folly guides.
–As You Like It,
Act III, Scene iv
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