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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

There is no heaven like mutual love.

Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.