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Beare with evill, and expect good.
Beare with evill, and expect good.
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad read more
Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.
