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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
The pain
Remembrance gives, when the fix'd dart
Is stirred thus in the wound again.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
If that you have a former friend for foe.