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I must be cruel only to be kind.
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
They make a desert and they call it peace.
They make a desert and they call it peace.
Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Better do nothing than do ill.
Who could be happy and alone or good?
Who could be happy and alone or good?
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
