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A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
Give me the ocular proof.
Give me the ocular proof.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand
griefes prove.
