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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.]
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
The great put the little on the hooke.
The great put the little on the hooke.
My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.
