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Bear with evil, and expect good.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
See the effect of commercial intercourse.
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault,
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault,
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of read more
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
