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I have cut my leg with my own adze.
I have cut my leg with my own adze.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
He who says what he likes, must hear what he does not like.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
All things in their beeing are good for something.
All things in their beeing are good for something.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
