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“Affection is a coal that must be cool’d, Else suffer’d it will set the heart on fire.” (Venus and Adonis Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery, for where a heart is hard they make no battery.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. ‘Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum’d that breedeth love by smelling.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“He kisses her, and she by her good will / Will never rise, so he will kiss her still.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Love is a spirit all compact of fire, Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“O hard-believing love, how strange it seems!
William Shakespeare
Not to believe, and yet too credulous:
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;
Despair and hope make thee ridiculous:
The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,
In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.” (Venus and Adonis Quotes)
Venus and Adonis
“O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain, And once made perfect, never lost again.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“One sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“She’s Love, she loves, and yet she is not lov’d.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Through his mane and tail the high wind sings, fanning the hairs, who wave like feather’d wings.”
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
“Who sees his true-love in her naked bed,
William Shakespeare
Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white,
But when his glutton eye so full hath fed,
His other agents aim at like delight?
Who is so faint that dare not be so bold
To touch the fire, the weather being cold?”
Venus and Adonis
