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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.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!
That which never has been, never is, and never will be.
That which never has been, never is, and never will be.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.
