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Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that
carries gold and eats thistles.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
Never without a shilling in my purse.
Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]
Hold on, and wait for the grasshoppers. [Wait for better times.]