An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.

Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.

Begging a courtesy is selling liberty.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.

Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.

Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these
thresholds, within which youth dwells.