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You kick against the goad.
You kick against the goad.
First come, first served.
First come, first served.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee
will repay thee.
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
Custom is second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have read more
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
