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Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
A fickle and capricious woman.
A fickle and capricious woman.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing
else in this world.
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing
else in this world.