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Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
A man should be religious, not superstitious.
He that studies his content, wants it.
He that studies his content, wants it.
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
In vaine is the mill-clacke, if the Miller his hearing lack.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
