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Love and businesse teach eloquence.
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream read more
Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
He that followes the Lord hopes to goe before.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
And wer't not madness then
To make the fox surveyor of the fold.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
It's a proud horse that will not carry his owne provender.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
