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Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
He is the least in want who is the least covetous.
A blustering night, a faire day.
A blustering night, a faire day.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes
a fool of him.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
