Common report is not always wrong.

Common report is not always wrong.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.

God comes to see without a bell.

God comes to see without a bell.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb read more

Rains driven by storms fall not perpetually on the land already
sodden, neither do varying gales for ever disturb the Caspian
sea.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.

He is not poor who has a competency.

He is not poor who has a competency.

He that once hitts, is ever bending.

He that once hitts, is ever bending.