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The best mirrour is an old friend.
The best mirrour is an old friend.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.