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Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
Let not him that feares feathers come among wild-foule.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our
past life with pleasure.
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our
past life with pleasure.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
