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Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Make three bites of a cherry.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
Love makes one fitt for any work.
An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy.