He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not
ripe.

The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not
ripe.

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.

And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.

And all may think which way their judgments lead 'em.

The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.

The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.

Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.