As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Love is a smoke rais'd by the fume of sighs.
The purest treasure mortal time afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
The brain may devise laws for the blood; But a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
The fool doth think he is wise, But the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transformed to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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