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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make read more
Round, round, while thus we go round,
The best thing a man can do,
Is to make it at least, a merry-go-round,
By--sending the wine round too.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
Disgraces are like cherries, one drawes another.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks.
By that sin fell the angels.
By that sin fell the angels.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
Come, shepherd, let us make an honorable retreat; though not with
bag and baggage, yet with scrip and crippage.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
