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With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early read more
With more capacity for love than earth
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth,
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth,
And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
God oft hath a great share in a little house.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
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Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you
bee drowned.
In a great River great fish are found, but take heede, lest you
bee drowned.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.
