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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter.
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
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He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
You whirled them to the back of beyont.
You whirled them to the back of beyont.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
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Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another.
[Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.]
Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.
Be cautious as to what you say of men, and to whom you speak it.
And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.