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Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we
cannot complain.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
