"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face."
"As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there."
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Source: c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).
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