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The next way home's the farthest way about.
The next way home's the farthest way about.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
Benefits please like flowers while they are fresh.
The great would have none great and the little all little.
The great would have none great and the little all little.
What mare's nest hast thou found?
What mare's nest hast thou found?
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Gloriously false. [Like Rahab.]
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
