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Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in
subjection.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
The pupil will eclipse his tutor, I warrant.
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
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Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
In doing nothing men learn to do evil.
If the first of July be rainy weather,
It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
If the first of July be rainy weather,
It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.