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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial
in the shade?
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
Good horses make short miles.
Good horses make short miles.
Wee know not who lives or dies.
Wee know not who lives or dies.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
But civlyzation doos git forrid
Sometimes upon a powder-cart.