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He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
When we have what we like 'tis hard to miss it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect read more
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an
injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the
unjust, is simple folly.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
