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A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
Without businesse debauchery.
Without businesse debauchery.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for read more
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be read more
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
Turn giddy and be holp by backward turning;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
[Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
Such crimes has superstition caused.
Such crimes has superstition caused.
