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With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
With men all is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
He that doth what he should not, shall feele what he would not.
When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
When yet was ever found a mother
Who'd give her booby for another?
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
