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Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse.
 Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with 
increased violence.  
 Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with 
increased violence. 
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
 She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret 
fire.  
 She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret 
fire. 
 Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he 
only knew how to use it.  
 Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he 
only knew how to use it. 
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
No day is wholly unproductive of good.
 It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be 
cured by baldness.  
 It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be 
cured by baldness.