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The Most Quotable First Lines Of Shakespearean Sonnets

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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments... (55)

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds... (116)

My favorite since I heard it. Sonnet 116 says everything about love without being schmaltzy.

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No longer mourn for me when I am dead... (71)

Greatest epitaph poem I ever read.

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As an unperfect actor on stage... (23)

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?... (18)

This is the classic Shakesperean sonnet; full of music.

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old,... (104)

A heart-breaking work of genius.

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Being your slave, what should I do but tend... (57)

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Love is too young to know what conscience is;... (151)

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O, how I faint when I of you do write,.... (80)

Beautiful, beautiful writing

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They that have power to hurt and will do none,... (94)

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Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;... (113)

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O, never say that I was false of heart,... (109)

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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,... (65)

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So are you to my thoughts as food to life,... (75)

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Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,... (34)

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Or I shall live your epitaph to make,... (81)

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Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;... (14)

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Two loves I have of comfort and despair,... (144)

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