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Christopher Marlowe, The Spell of the Open Air
"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?*
William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Return with haste: time passeth swift away;
Our life is frail, and we may die today.
Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- Romeo -
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let thy voice,
Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
---Alfred Tennyson
For this alone on Death I wreak
The wrath that garners in my heart:
He put our lives so far apart
We cannot hear each other speak.
Alfred Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam A.H.H."
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and for ever.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
This melancholy London — I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually.
---W.B. Yeats
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before,
But vaster.
---Alfred Tennyson
Cast a cold eye
on life, on death
Horseman pass by
---W.E. Yeats
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?
---William Butler Yeats
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
----William Butler Yeats
Pluck thou my flower, Oothoon the mild; Another flower shall spring, because the soul of sweet delight Can never pass away.
----William Blake, The Book of Thel
To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart
---William Butler Yeats
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.
----Philip Larkin
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth;
The grass is bright with rain-drops;—on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
----William Wordsworth
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
---Pablo Neruda