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The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters read more
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which read more
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new
thing under the sun.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
If that you have a former friend for foe.
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
Every sin brings its punishment with it.
