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All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised read more
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
Some cursed fraud
Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown,
And me with thee hath ruined.
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love read more
But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth;
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in read more
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success
The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.