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There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
Love and businesse teach eloquence.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Good words are worth much, and cost little.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.
After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.
He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.