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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage
money.
When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
There is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
