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It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original
way.
Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.
Love askes faith, and faith firmenesse.
Successful villany is called virtue.
Successful villany is called virtue.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!
All is not gold that glisters.
All is not gold that glisters.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
