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Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest.
A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Never was anything so inconsistent.
Never was anything so inconsistent.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
