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Simple is the language of truth.
Simple is the language of truth.
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
Of all smells, bread: of all tasts, salt.
