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Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
Sceptre and crown must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked read more
Sceptre and crown must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
Patience, time and money accommodate all things.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
Is it not sheer madness to live poor to die rich?
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy read more
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.
Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has
passed his life in seclusion.