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His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
It costs more to doe ill then to doe well.
 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? 
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
 Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
 And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
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 Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
 And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
  She prized it once. 
 O, that men's ears should be
 To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!  
 O, that men's ears should be
 To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! 
 From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of 
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more 
 From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of 
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.