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It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
Better suffer ill, then doe ill.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its
proverbs.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
