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Don't long for the unripe grape.
Don't long for the unripe grape.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
