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The point is plain as a pike staff.
The point is plain as a pike staff.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit
drieth the bones.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
A faire death honours the whole life.
A faire death honours the whole life.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled.
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is
necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is
necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
