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'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.
He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Idle people have the least leisure.
Idle people have the least leisure.
Never had ill workeman good tooles.
Never had ill workeman good tooles.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.