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Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent read more 
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent in prosperite,
   And it remembren whan it passed is. 
 Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
 [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]  
 Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
 [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.] 
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind read more
Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.
 Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
 Who never spent the darksome hours
  Weeping, and watching for read more 
 Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
 Who never spent the darksome hours
  Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--
   He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
    [Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,
     Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte
      Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,
       Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.] 
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
 Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men 
are caught by it as fish by a read more 
 Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men 
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
 [Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea 
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.] 
 The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure 
my business.  
 The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure 
my business. 
 How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
 Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.  
 How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
 Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.