"He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost."
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
"Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Young men's love, then, lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
"O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
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Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
"I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself."
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
"If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices."
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
"When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it—to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning."
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
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