"The most effective mirror is definitely an previous good friend."
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"Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace."
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"Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?"
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"He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five."
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"He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not."
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"Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back."
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"Reason and speech we onely bring."
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"Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not."
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"True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together."
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"I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King."
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"As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense."
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"How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense."
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"A snow year, a rich year."
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"Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine."
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"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives."
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"Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree."
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"One flower makes no garland."
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"He that respects not is not respected."
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"Let all live as they would die."
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"Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it."
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