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No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
If the braine sowes not corne, it plants thistles.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it
was first seasoned.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
Our liberality should not exceed our ability.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable
with interest about thirty years after date.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
Bear with evil, and expect good.
