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For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs,
Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
To a brave man every soil is his country.
All was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear
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All was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear
The better reason.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do what you should, not what you may.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by read more
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.