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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to
our insufficient fortune.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
The silent countenance often speaks with expressive eloquence.
If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.
If all fooles had babies, wee should want fuell.
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
For the labourer is worthy of his hire.
For the labourer is worthy of his hire.
He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.
He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to read more
The first degree of folly is to hold ones selfe wise, the second
to professe it, the third to despise counsell.