They say we are

Almost as like as eggs.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Winter's Tale. Act i. Sc. 2.

Like,—but oh how different!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Yes, it was the Mountain Echo.

'T is all men's office to speak patience

To those that wring under the load of sorrow,

But no man's virtue nor sufficiency

To be so moral when he shall endure

The like himself.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.

Like following life through creatures you dissect,

You lose it in the moment you detect.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Moral Essays. Epistle i. Line 20.

My father's brother, but no more like my father

Than I to Hercules.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

He was a man, take him for all in all,

I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2.

I feel like one

Who treads alone

Some banquet-hall deserted,

Whose lights are fled,

Whose garlands dead,

And all but he departed.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Oft in the Stilly Night.

Between the acting of a dreadful thing

And the first motion, all the interim is

Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:

The Genius and the mortal instruments

Are then in council; and the state of man,

Like to a little kingdom, suffers then

The nature of an insurrection.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Like will to like.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. iv.