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Rome was not built in a day.
Rome was not built in a day.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.
Life is halfe spent before we know what it is.
The back-doore robs the house.
The back-doore robs the house.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that
despiseth it.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
