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The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.
A gentlemans grayhound, and a salt-box; seeke them at the fire.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
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.]
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well
used. Exclaim no more against it.
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.
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
