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The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly
gratifying.
One stroke fells not an oke.
One stroke fells not an oke.
There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
There would bee no great ones if there were no little ones.
Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour
in the cup, when it read more
Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour
in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it read more
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it
were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
