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Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come,
Discomfort swells.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward
To what they were before.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.
As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.
