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Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Mend your cloathes, and you may hold out this yeare.
Beare with evill, and expect good.
Beare with evill, and expect good.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
Assaile who will, the valiant attends.
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
