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Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
To a crazy ship all winds are contrary.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
The coveteous spends more then the liberall.
The coveteous spends more then the liberall.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with
increased violence.
When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of
sly tricks.
When they can't win in fair fight, they resort to all sorts of
sly tricks.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.
There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse
of brain, says the Spaniard.