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Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
Love is the true price of love.
Love is the true price of love.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum.
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
For villany is not without such rheum.
