An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Is not absence death to those who love?

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.