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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
That is not good language which all understand not.
That is not good language which all understand not.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
