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| Proverbs | One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor, And so in ours, some neighboring nation, Taking advantage of our misery, Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power, To beat us down, the which are down already, And make a conquest of unhappy, Whereas no glory 's got to overcome. |
| Proverbs | One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish, Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning, One desperate grief cures with another's languish. |
| Proverbs | Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. |
| Proverbs | Come, we burn daylight, ho! Nay, that's not so. I mean, sir, in delay We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. |
| Proverbs | Here beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. |
| Proverbs | And what love can do, that does love attempt. |
| Proverbs | At lovers' perjuries, They say Jove laughs. |
| Proverbs | He jests at scars that never felt a wound. |
| Proverbs | I would have thee gone, And yet no further than a wanton's bird, Who lets it hop a little from her hand, Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, And with a silk thread plucks it back again. |
| Proverbs | What's in a name? |
| Proverbs | What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
| Proverbs | Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie, But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. |
| Proverbs | Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. |
| Proverbs | Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good cloth give. |
| Proverbs | The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. |
| Proverbs | The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. |
| Proverbs | Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
| Proverbs | Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. |
| Proverbs | Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. |
| Proverbs | The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes. |
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