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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife read more
Had the crow only fed without cawing she would have had more to
eat, and much less of strife and envy to contend with. [To noise
abroad our success is to invite envy and competition.]
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
Give me the soft sigh, whilst the soul-telling eye
Is dimm'd for a time with a tear.
