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Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
Better to be blinde, then to see ill.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
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Come, we burn daylight, ho!
Nay, that's not so.
I mean, sir, in delay
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
What is to be once resolved on should be first often well
considered.
A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
A woman conceales what shee knowes not.
A woman conceales what shee knowes not.
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.
The shadow of a mighty name.
The shadow of a mighty name.
