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What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
The Citizen is at his businesse before he rise.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well
mended.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be read more
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age,
nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
