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Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.
Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
Advise none to marry or goe to warre.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good cloth give.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
