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IV



Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend

Upon thy self thy beauty\'s legacy?

Nature\'s bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,

And being frank she lends to those are free:

Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse

The bounteous largess given thee to give?

Profitless usurer, why dost thou use

So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?

For having traffic with thy self alone,

Thou of thy self thy sweet self dost deceive:

Then how when nature calls thee to be gone,

What acceptable audit canst thou leave?

  Thy unused beauty must be tombed with thee,

  Which, used, lives th\' executor to be.

 	--William Shakespeare

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say \'he feels
deeply, he feels tenderly.\'
Vincent Van Gogh

The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. --Emerson