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After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who read more
There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on
other matters.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
