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To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Man is to man a god or a wolf.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
Shee spins well that breedes her children.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
God made the country, and man made the town.
God made the country, and man made the town.
The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart
of fools is in the read more
The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart
of fools is in the house of mirth.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
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Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire;
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror.
