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If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not
till then.
Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not
till then.
All is grist that comes to the mill.
All is grist that comes to the mill.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
Fancy the Gracchi complaining of treason!
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
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.
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of read more
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
