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How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Never without a shilling in my purse.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
The blind eate many a flie.
The blind eate many a flie.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.
He is praised by some, blamed by others.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.
