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1. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
2. “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.”
3. “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she.”
4. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”
5. “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out.”
6. “O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
7. “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
8. “Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
9. “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.”
10. “I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”
11. “Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.”
12. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”
13. “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!”
14. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiopeโs ear.”
15. “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”
16. “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”
17. “O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”
18. “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.”
19. “If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.”
20. “She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it.”
21. “Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back.”
22. “O, I am fortune’s fool!”
23. “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”
24. “Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.”
25. “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume.”
26. “Love is a tender thing.”
27. “I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
28. “O, I am fortune’s fool!”
29. “My heart’s dear love is set On the fair daughter of rich Capulet: As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; And all combined, save what thou must combine By holy marriage.”
30. “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
31. “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
32. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
33. “I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.”
34. “Love’s heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams, Driving back shadows over louring hills.”
35. “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
36. “O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do! They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.”
37. “My love is deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.”
38. “In delay there lies no plenty.”
39. “And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
40. “See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”
41. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.”
42. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
43. “My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.”
44. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
45. “O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circle orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
46. “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.”
47. “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead (Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!) And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor.”
48. “It was the nightingale, and not the lark,That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree.Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.”
49. “More light and light; more dark and dark our woes.”
50. “A thousand times good night!”
51. “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,Towards Phoebus’ lodging: such a wagonerAs Phaethon would whip you to the west,And bring in cloudy night immediately.”
52. “Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops.”
53. “This bud of love by summer’s ripening breath,May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.”
54. “My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”
55. “Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
56. “If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:My
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