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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee
hath laid out.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.