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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
A pittifull looke askes enough.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
