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Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg,
never quits his track.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
