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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he
only knew how to use it.
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
The life of spies is to know, not bee known.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey,
and brevity.
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
The beast that goes alwaies never wants blowes.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?