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It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
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The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
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A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
Many kisse the hand they wish cut off.
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can
hurt.
There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can
hurt.
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).
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.
What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of read more
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.