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The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the read more
The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea,
than the mighty waves of the sea.
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
Water which is too pure has no fish
Water which is too pure has no fish
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is
mastering you.
[Lat., Miserum est read more
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is
mastering you.
[Lat., Miserum est opus,
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; read more
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground,
which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any
person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not
expelled from him.
What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
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What, man! more water glideth by the mill
That wots the miller of; and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:
Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother,
Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.
It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.
It is the calm and silent water that drowns a man.