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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
An injury may prove a blessing.
An injury may prove a blessing.
All powerful is the rule of fashion.
All powerful is the rule of fashion.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
Working and making a fire doth discretion require.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The cholerick man never wants woe.
The river past, and God forgotten.
The river past, and God forgotten.