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Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Not if you burst yourself will you equal him.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour.
Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
He that steals an egge, will steal an oxe.
