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Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
How God ever brings like to like.
How God ever brings like to like.
 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
 Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
  The east; 'tis time unfolds read more 
 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
 Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
  The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity. 
 It's wiser being good than bad;
 It's safer being meek than fierce:
  It's fitter being sane than read more 
 It's wiser being good than bad;
 It's safer being meek than fierce:
  It's fitter being sane than mad.
   My own hope is, a sun will pierce
    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;
     That, after Last, returns the First,
      Though a wide compass round be fetched;
       That what began best, can't end worst,
        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. 
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone.  
 At whose sight, like the sun,
 All others with diminish'd lustre shone. 
Our similarities are different.
Our similarities are different.
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.]  
 Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
 [Lat., Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura.] 
 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
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 The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.
 [It., L'ape e la serpe spesso
  Suggon l'istesso umore.] 
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.