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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed read more
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been
discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once,
and seek again that which he despised.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with read more
To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a read more
Fill the cup and fill the can,
Have a rouse before the morn;
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Go West, young man! Go West.
Go West, young man! Go West.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
A fair face may hide a foul heart.
