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To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without.
[There is fault on both sides.]
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
It is not permitted that we should know everything.
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
All soils are not fertile.
All soils are not fertile.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,
(That last infirmity of noble mind)
To scorn delights, and live laborious days;
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,
And think to burst out into sudden blaze,
Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.
Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.
