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When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
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.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
To drink Falernian wine, the sweeter for being stolen.
