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With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
With customes wee live well, but Lawes undoe us.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
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.
Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
Warre makes theeves, and peace hangs them.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
