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Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
