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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
The eye will have his part.
The eye will have his part.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang read more
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.
It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
It's good walking with a horse in ones hand.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.