Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall.

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the
Escuriall.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us.

What one day gives us, another takes away from us.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

Let him fry in his own grease.

Let him fry in his own grease.

But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more

But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!

This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.