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What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
[Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will
by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.
Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
