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Love's not Time's Fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/ within his bending sickle's compass come. In these lines from Sonnet 116, how does Shakespeare describe true love?

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True love is something that will never changes over time,although beautiful faces do fall victim to the sweep of time's curved scythe
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True love is not subject to the changes of Time, although beautiful faces do fall victim to the sweep of Time's curved scythe:
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