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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to
those that have a blow).
It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to
those that have a blow).
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
First come, first served.
First come, first served.
The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.
The slow, sweet hours that bring us all things good.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
He that riseth first, is first drest.
He that riseth first, is first drest.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
