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A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
Favour will as surely perish as life.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
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.
It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless.
It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it
is useless.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.
