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No one can have all he desires.
No one can have all he desires.
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
His sickness increases from the remedies applied to cure it.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Dally not with mony or women.
Dally not with mony or women.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
