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The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Although you may strut about, proud of your purse, fortune
changes not birth.
Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.
Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath a wherefore.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is
incompossible.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
No endeavour is in vain;
Its reward is in the doing.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
Take the goods the gods provide thee.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
