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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
and the disease in a great measure read more
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged,
and the disease in a great measure removed.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he read more
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
Hope is the poore mans bread.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
