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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
Short boughs, long vintage.
Short boughs, long vintage.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded.
That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
Who could be happy and alone or good?
Who could be happy and alone or good?
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
