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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.
