“Gold all is not that doth golden seem.”
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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