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The way to good conduct is never too late.
The way to good conduct is never too late.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
offence.
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the
offence.