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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone
his way, then he boasteth.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
A stone in a well is not lost.
A stone in a well is not lost.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
To weepe for joy is a kinde of Manna.
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into read more
Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin!