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Anger manages everything badly.
Anger manages everything badly.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
He threatens many that hath injured one.
Long jesting was never good.
Long jesting was never good.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means read more
The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the
sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means
of defence.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
