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Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
Praise a hill, but keepe below.
Praise a hill, but keepe below.
