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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the
unfortunate.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
Patience is sorrow's salve.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
O let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks!
O let not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks!
