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A smiling face is half the meal.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren
ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.
Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
Where there is peace, God is.
Where there is peace, God is.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.
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.]
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
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The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.