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161.
If your affairs my diligence could mend
First Line:
If your affairs my diligence could mend
Last Line:
Which helps not you but gives me real pain
DMI number:
27956
162.
Ill busied man why should thou take such care
First Line:
Ill busied man why should thou take such care
Last Line:
Are but as tears shed for thy funeral
Author:
Henry King (Absolute)
DMI number:
4346
163.
Let dogs and devils die
First Line:
Let dogs and devils die
Last Line:
Our life's but a holiday
DMI number:
42928
164.
Let not brittle beauty make
First Line:
Let not brittle beauty make
Last Line:
And seed in age your hot desire
DMI number:
44108
165.
Let not that day in circling moments run
First Line:
Let not that day in circling moments run
Last Line:
Mature and open to omniscience lie
Author:
Mary Leapor (Absolute)
DMI number:
23752
166.
Let observation with extensive view
First Line:
Let observation with extensive view
Last Line:
And makes the happiness she does not find
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
25726
167.
Let observation with extensive view
First Line:
Let observation with extensive view
Last Line:
And senates heard before they judged a cause
Author:
Samuel Johnson (Absolute)
DMI number:
23580
168.
Learn | The bounds of good and evil to discern
First Line:
Learn | The bounds of good and evil to discern
Last Line:
Still to be near but never to reach the first
DMI number:
39889
169.
Less are the griefs we undergo
First Line:
Less are the griefs we undergo
Last Line:
Where those black clouds of curling smoke do rise
DMI number:
44674
170.
Less by his birth than by his merit known
First Line:
Less by his birth than by his merit known
Last Line:
Worth is short lived then nothing hold too dear
DMI number:
27462
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