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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
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She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Stained
With grief, that's beauty's canter.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
