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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
God has joined the innocent with the guilty.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
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.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
They are safe in their number and their close array.
They are safe in their number and their close array.
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For read more
She had a good opinion of advice,
Like all who give and eke receive it gratis,
For which small thanks are still the market price,
Even where the article at highest rate is.
