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Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little read more
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out
of thy sleep?
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the
hands to sleep:
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth,
and thy want as an armed man.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
And from his ashes may be made
The violet of his native land.
Marriages are made in Heaven.
Marriages are made in Heaven.
Mutually giving and receiving aid,
They set each other off, like light and shade.
Mutually giving and receiving aid,
They set each other off, like light and shade.
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where read more
A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would
chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is
professed with greatest strictness).