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If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
He that plaies his mony ought not to value it.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
