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A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
A handfull of good life is better then a bushell of learning.
He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
Good horses make short miles.
Good horses make short miles.
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
He that staies does the businesse.
He that staies does the businesse.