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Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
Let him play the second fiddle who can't play the first.
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
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There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly.
[There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.
Better spare to have of thine own, then aske of other men.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
A creature not too bright nor good
For human nature's daily food.
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,
Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick
sleepes.