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Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
A little fire is quickly trodden out;
Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil read more
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
that shall be read more
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
that shall be my master.]
It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and
successful by examples.
