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What mare's nest hast thou found?
What mare's nest hast thou found?
You harp perpetually on the same string.
You harp perpetually on the same string.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
