To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
William Shakespeare'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal.
William ShakespeareAy me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare