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  • A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

    1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.
  • Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

  • Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it?

  • The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

  • Whatsoever is in the heart of the sober man, is in the mouth of the drunkard.

    John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.115, Manchester University Press
  • If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

    'If all the earth were paper white' in R. Warwick Bond (ed.) 'The Complete Works' (1902) vol. 3, p. 452
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