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Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a read more
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe
councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius read more
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe
councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
