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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Save, where you are, how happy you make those.<br />

So true a fool is love that in your will,<br />

Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.<br />

Sonnet 57<br />

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,<br />

So do our minutes hasten to their end.<br />

Sonnet 60<br />

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth<br />

And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow.<br />

Sonnet 60<br />

Sin <strong>of</strong> self-love possesseth all mine eye.<br />

Sonnet 62<br />

When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced<br />

<strong>The</strong> rich-proud cost <strong>of</strong> outworn buried age.<br />

Sonnet 64<br />

When I have seen the hungry ocean gain<br />

Advantage on the kingdom <strong>of</strong> the shore.<br />

Sonnet 64<br />

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,<br />

But sad mortality o’ersways their power,<br />

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,<br />

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?<br />

Sonnet 65<br />

Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,<br />

As to behold desert a beggar born,<br />

And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,<br />

And purest faith unhappily forsworn,<br />

And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,<br />

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,<br />

And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,<br />

And strength by limping sway disabled,<br />

And art made tongue-tied by authority,<br />

And folly—doctor-like—controlling skill,<br />

And simple truth miscalled simplicity,<br />

And captive good attending captain ill:<br />

Tired with all these, from these I would be gone,<br />

Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.<br />

Sonnet 66<br />

No longer mourn for me when I am dead<br />

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

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