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When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her read more
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.
Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a
living tomb.
I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.
I kissed thee, ere I killed thee.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
The ears that gape after secrets retain not faithfully what is
entrusted to them.
