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A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
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My days of love are over: me no more
The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow,
Can make the fool of; that they made before:
In fact I must not lead the life I did do.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
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.
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Let each man have according to his deserts.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!
God's in His Heaven--
All's right with the world!
