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All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
A shippe and a woman are ever repairing.
Content is more than a kingdom.
Content is more than a kingdom.
Men's language is as their lives.
Men's language is as their lives.
An old friend is a new house.
An old friend is a new house.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to
bee buried there.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
You began better than you have finished; the last act is not
equal to the first.
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to
Vespasian's tax on ordure.]
