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And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
William Shakespeare, Othello
What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
---William Butler Yeats