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When the lightning strikes but one, not one only does it terrify.

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Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?

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He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he might take the current sideways.

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A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

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Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

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Venus favors the bold.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.

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Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

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A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

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Even the gods are moved by the voice of entreaty.

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

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Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.

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Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

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The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

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Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

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