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Love is not found in the market.
Love is not found in the market.
 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
 And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
  Willing read more 
 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
 And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend. 
 Fortune favors the brave.
 [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]  
 Fortune favors the brave.
 [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] 
He will burne his house, to warme his hands.
He will burne his house, to warme his hands.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
Hee that makes himself a sheep, shall be eat by the wolfe.
 For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.  
 For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
 Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.