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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
You shall never want rope enough.
You shall never want rope enough.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
The honied tongue hath its poison.
Living well is the best revenge.
Living well is the best revenge.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]
