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Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.]
There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and
the lamb.
There is as much love between you and me as between the wolf and
the lamb.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
Sceptre and crown must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked read more
Sceptre and crown must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the
deede, the French after the deede.
He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.
He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.