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Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.)
[Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.
With taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.
With taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish.
It is very hard to shave an egge.
It is very hard to shave an egge.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.
All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.