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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
