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Every animal loves itself.
Every animal loves itself.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
