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Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their
signatures to the very essays they write on the read more
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their
signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of
despising glory.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
In time comes he whom God sends.
In time comes he whom God sends.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
A City that parlies is half gotten.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
