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A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
The best smell is bread, the best savour, salt, the best love
that of children.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.