A Quote by Sophocles
Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
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Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
[Better suffer ill, than do ill.]
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Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch all feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.
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