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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.
And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one
Anvile.
You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one
Anvile.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]