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Talkers are no good doers.
Talkers are no good doers.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
He that lives most dies most.
He that lives most dies most.
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
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.
