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 Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on 
what is obscure.  
 Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on 
what is obscure. 
Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.
Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
 We but teach
 Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
  To plague the inventor.  
 We but teach
 Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
  To plague the inventor. 
We have to thank God for this retirement.
We have to thank God for this retirement.
 Who that has reason, and his smell,
 Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?  
 Who that has reason, and his smell,
 Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? 
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
 It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
 [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]  
 It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
 [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] 
Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.
Hee that lookes not before, finds himselfe behind.