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Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
A little with quiet is the onely dyet.
A little with quiet is the onely dyet.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
How sweet the task to shield an absent friend!
I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
