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He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
God keep me from false friends!
God keep me from false friends!
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good.
[Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in
learning.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
