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The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of
a farthing sixe pence.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
Wine that cost nothing is digested before it be drunke.
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last
long.
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last
long.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.