'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;
A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.

Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.

Every cock fights best on his own dunghill.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.

In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken
to is silent.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he
lacks opportunity.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he
lacks opportunity.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.