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Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us
In deepest consequence.
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
Treading softly like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
And feeling all along the read more
Treading softly like a thief,
Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,
And feeling all along the garden wall.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
