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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
He that will take the bird, must not skare it.
He that will take the bird, must not skare it.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp read more
Behold him in conceited circles sail,
Strutting and dancing and now planted stiff,
In all his pomp of pageantry, as if
He felt the eyes of Europe on his tail.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
