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Quotation from Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

“O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116, Lines 5-6 (Project Gutenberg #1041, modern spelling)

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Love pictured as a sea-mark, a fixed beacon that faces storms unmoved.

Citation: "O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken;" — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, Lines 5-6 (Project Gutenberg #1041, modern spelling). (id sonnet-116-q3)

Portrait: Sonnet 116 1609, William Shakespeare, Public domain.

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