William Shakespeare ( 10 of 1881 )
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
 O Lorenzo,
 If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
  Become a Christian and thy loving read more 
 O Lorenzo,
 If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
  Become a Christian and thy loving wife! 
 I do love
 My country's good with a respect more tender,
  More holy and profound, then mine read more 
 I do love
 My country's good with a respect more tender,
  More holy and profound, then mine own life,
   My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase,
    And treasure of my loins. 
 Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
 Leave gormandizing.  
 Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace.
 Leave gormandizing. 
 Many a time and oft
 Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
  To tow'rs and windows, read more 
 Many a time and oft
 Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
  To tow'rs and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
   Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
    The livelong day, with patient expectation,
     To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. 
 Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
 Have I commandment on the pulse of life?  
 Think you I bear the shears of destiny?
 Have I commandment on the pulse of life? 
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
 Did ever raven sing so like a lark
 That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?  
 Did ever raven sing so like a lark
 That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?