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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The House shewes the owner.
The House shewes the owner.
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.
I from the jaws of a gardener's bitch
Snatched this bone and then leapt the ditch.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Now clothed like a Roman, now like a Greek. [An inconstant,
perfidious man.]
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
Hee hath no leisure who useth it not.
If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.
If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.