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Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
A live dog is better than a dead lion.
As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen.
As shines the moon in clouded skies,
She in her poor attire was seen.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a
saint.
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
The bowl dispels corroding cares.
