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The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Bear and forbear.
Bear and forbear.
Breaking his oath and resolution, like
A twist of rotten silk.
Breaking his oath and resolution, like
A twist of rotten silk.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
Seeming genial, venial fault.
A little and good fills the trencher.
A little and good fills the trencher.
