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The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
The sure way to wickedness is through wickedness.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
Tell me, thou old man, worthy of a child's bauble.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
All delay is irksome, but it teaches us wisdom.
Where your will is ready, your feete are light.
Where your will is ready, your feete are light.
The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
The Good are better made by Ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.
Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
