Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.

After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.

After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.

One slumber finds another.

One slumber finds another.

True praise rootes and spreedes.

True praise rootes and spreedes.

Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs
down and prostates the mind also.