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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Corne is cleaned with winde, and the soule with chastnings.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
Alas, by what trivial causes is greatness overthrown!
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which
we can have is disregarded.
That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which
we can have is disregarded.
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth
not.
Hee that should have what hee hath not, should doe what he doth
not.
