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The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
No one delights more in revenge than a woman.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
O how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him read more
As the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is,
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form.
