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No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
God provides for him that trusteth.
God provides for him that trusteth.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.
Even a child is known by his doings.
Even a child is known by his doings.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle.
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.]
The way is an ill neighbour.
The way is an ill neighbour.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
An inch in missing is as bad as an ell.
