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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arme.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by read more
There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
Into a mouth shut flies flie not.
