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Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
Little pitchers have wide eares.
[Little pitchers have wide ears.]
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle,
and a Prison.
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle,
and a Prison.
