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This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
Of joys departed
Not to return, how painful the remembrance.
A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
The Court hath no Almanack.
The Court hath no Almanack.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
