Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love?

mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest.

romeo: nay, good goose, bite not.

mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most
sharp sauce.

romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose?

mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an
inch narrow to an ell broad!

romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added
to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.

mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love?
now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art
thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:
for this drivelling love is like a great natural,
that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.

benvolio: stop there, stop there.

mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.

benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.

mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short:
for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and
meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

The lines that indicate that Mercutio believes Romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love are the following:

Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?

now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art

thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:

for this drivelling love is like a great natural,

that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.

This is so because Mercutio is telling Romeo that when he is not thinking about love he is more sociable and he is being himself—“Now though art sociable, now thou art Romeo.”  And, he goes on to explain what love is doing to him is causing him not be himself—to be veiled by his constant preoccupation with it—because he is so consumed with it that “love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.”

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”