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Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you
a shovel.
Just when you think you've finally hit bottom, someone tosses you
a shovel.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so,
execute with vigour.
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
He that chastens one, chastens 20.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the
people.
