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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
All griefes with bread are lesse.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
By that sin fell the angels.
By that sin fell the angels.
You stick in the same mire.
You stick in the same mire.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a
grief in store for yourself.]
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.
The brave or the fortunate can afford to laugh at envy.