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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
No money, no Swiss.
[Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
No money, no Swiss.
[Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.
Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not
discretion.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
