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The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
United we stand, divided we fall.
United we stand, divided we fall.
A golden key can open any door.
A golden key can open any door.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
[He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
[He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.]
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.
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
