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A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
A word once spoken cannot be recalled.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
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Her pretty action did outsell her gift,
And yet enriched it too. She gave it me and said
She prized it once.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Providence is better then a rent.
Providence is better then a rent.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
