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An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb read more
Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian
sea.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
If yee would know a knave, give him a staffe.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
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.
A stone in a well is not lost.
A stone in a well is not lost.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.