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Don't shit on your own doorstep.
Don't shit on your own doorstep.
He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.
He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?
