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A stone in a well is not lost.
A stone in a well is not lost.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
Who teacheth often learns himself.
Who teacheth often learns himself.
Councell breakes not the head.
Councell breakes not the head.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Anothers bread costs deare.
Anothers bread costs deare.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.