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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!
God keep me from false friends!
God keep me from false friends!
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
