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If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
Thinke of ease, but worke on.
Thinke of ease, but worke on.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
To learn from other men's mistakes to prevent your own.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long read more
Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
One sound blow will serve to undo us all.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.
