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If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
If you would know secrets, looke them in griefe or pleasure.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
Content is more than a kingdom.
Content is more than a kingdom.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
Simple is the language of truth.
Simple is the language of truth.
There are faults we would fain pardon.
There are faults we would fain pardon.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
