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Which of these two is the greater fool?
Which of these two is the greater fool?
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow
Is felt the first, the only sense
Of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
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.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.
