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Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
Such as she is, who died to-day,
Such thou alas! mayst be to-morrow.
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a read more
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a read more
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]