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The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
He is not poor who has a competency.
He is not poor who has a competency.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles.
He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
He shall find the rugged thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, that outredden
All voluptuous garden roses.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
