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The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what
the morrow will bring with it.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.
Night is the mother of Councels.
Night is the mother of Councels.
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's read more
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.