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Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years
after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids read more
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years
after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years
after.]
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?