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    Have more than thou showest,
    Speak less than thou knowest,
    Lend less than thou owest,
    Ride more than thou goest,
    Learn more than thou trowest,
    Set less than thou throwest;
    Leave thy drink and thy whore,
    And keep in-a-door,
    And thou shalt have more
    Than two tens to a score.

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After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]

After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]

by Sir Walter Scott Found in: General Sayings,
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

by Unknown Found in: General Sayings,
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Never was anything so inconsistent.

Never was anything so inconsistent.

by Unknown Found in: General Sayings,
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The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.

by Unknown Found in: General Sayings,
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I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my read more

I make a declaration every spring,
Of reformation ere the year run out,
But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.

by John Byrom Found in: General Sayings,
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The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush
With trembling wing misdoubteth every bush.

by William Shakespeare Found in: General Sayings,
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Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched.

Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched.

by William Wordsworth Found in: General Sayings,
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Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream read more

Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
With a very natural loathing--
Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
Instead of the dance upon nothing.

by Aaron Hill Found in: General Sayings,
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He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

by George Herbert Found in: General Sayings,
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