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Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
Drink boys, drink boys,
Drive away your sorrow!
Drink boys, drink boys,
Drive away your sorrow!
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.
Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.
The deafe gaines the injury.
The deafe gaines the injury.
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]
A woman and a glasse are ever in danger.
[A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by read more
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
