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 When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often 
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.  
 When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often 
mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large. 
 The fire, with well-dried logs supplied,
 Went roaring up the chimney wide.  
 The fire, with well-dried logs supplied,
 Went roaring up the chimney wide. 
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
Hee that lies long a bed, his estate feeles it.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
 Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
 [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]  
 Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
 [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] 
 A man so various, that he seem'd to be
 Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
  Stiff in read more 
 A man so various, that he seem'd to be
 Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
  Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
   Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
    But in the course of one revolving moon,
     Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
 It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to 
hear it said, "That is read more 
 It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to 
hear it said, "That is he." 
To buy deare is not bounty.
To buy deare is not bounty.