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Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
 Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren 
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. read more 
 Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren 
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be 
done, but I would fain die a dry death. 
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
Talkers are no good doers.
Talkers are no good doers.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
 With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting 
his ground?  
 With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting 
his ground? 
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
 But shepherds know
 How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
  From the mist of morning sky.  
 But shepherds know
 How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
  From the mist of morning sky. 
They talk like angels but they live like men.
They talk like angels but they live like men.