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The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad read more
O wad some power the giftie gie us
To see oursel's as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us.
And foolish notion;
What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us,
And ev'n devotion!
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Make three bites of a cherry.
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know read more
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave.
