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One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.
One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.
Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
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To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights.
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?
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
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Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
