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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.
He that sends a foole expects one.
He that sends a foole expects one.
Our content
Is our best having.
Our content
Is our best having.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
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.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.