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Virtue alone is happiness below.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
Modred's narrow foxy face,
Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.
Modred's narrow foxy face,
Heart hiding smile, and gray persistent eye.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
Men speake of the faire, as things went with them there.
