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If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes
us.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.
He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.
