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Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
A bitter drug oft brings relief.
A bitter drug oft brings relief.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to read more
She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
For a morning raine leave not your journey.
