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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
The world itself is too small for the covetous.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from
the attack even of the read more
Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from
the attack even of the weak.
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in read more
A man so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong.
Was everything by starts, and nothing long;
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
