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"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." —Sonnet 18 A classic line praising a beloved's beauty as surpassing even nature’s finest day.)
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"Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds." — Sonnet 116 (A powerful expression of true, unchanging love.)
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"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." — Sonnet 18 (The poet promises immortality to the beloved through his verses.)
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"My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease." — Sonnet 147 (A raw and intense image of love as both desire and suffering.)
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"With thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings." — Sonnet 29 (Love is portrayed as the greatest treasure, richer than royal power.)
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"Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire?" — Sonnet 57 (Love portrayed as devoted servitude, willing and constant.)
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"When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see..." — Sonnet 18 (Again affirming the power of poetry to preserve love forever.)
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"That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang..." — Sonnet 73 (A bittersweet metaphor of aging, yet the love remains warm and true.)
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