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Springes to catch woodcocks.
Springes to catch woodcocks.
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you read more
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
He that staies does the businesse.
He that staies does the businesse.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
On painting and fighting looke aloofe.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Men shut their doors against the setting sun.
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]