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Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks read more
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . read more
If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.
He is a foolish swimmer who swims against the stream, when he
might take the current sideways.