Quote #6

There is no jesting with edge tools.

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  1. Of all the paths lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
  2. Let's meet and either do or die.
  3. Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.
  4. Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melanchol…
  5. That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.
  6. Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
  7. Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate. Nothing to him f…
  8. And he that will to bed go sober Falls with the leaf in October.

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