A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.

Though they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the
power to do so.

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one
Anvile.

You must strike in measure, when there are many to strike on one
Anvile.

At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.

At lovers' perjuries,
They say Jove laughs.

The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
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The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

Good is the mora that makes all sure.

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.

Nothing lasts but the Church.

Nothing lasts but the Church.