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He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies
nothing, for ever.
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies
nothing, for ever.
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our
regard for the donor.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our
regard for the donor.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.
Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
