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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather:
injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
He makes a solitude, and calls it peace.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
Prayers and provender hinder no journey.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
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.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
Step after step the ladder is ascended.
