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Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes,
Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood
More than the words or wisdom of the wise.

— Samuel Daniel Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

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The stars that have most glory have no rest.

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The thing possessed is not the thing it seems.

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This is the thing that I was born to do.

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And for the few that only lend their ear,
That few is all the world.

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To spend the time luxuriously
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