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Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
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At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing,
'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;
All Nature's children feel the matin spring
Of life reviving, with reviving day.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
