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Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
But what avail'd this temperance, not complete
Against another object more enticing?
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
He did not care a button for it.
He did not care a button for it.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.
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).
