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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it doth singe yourself.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from read more
It's not improbable that a man may receive more solid
satisfaction from pudding while he is alive than from praise
after he is dead.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.