Quotation by Shakespeare

Eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Phebe, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 5, l. 12-3.

"Atomies" are atoms or motes.
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