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I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.
And neglected his task for the flowers on the way.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious read more
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
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).
