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Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
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Will fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest letters?
She either gives a stomach and no food--
Such are the poor, in health--or else a feast
And takes away the stomach-- such are the rich,
That have abundance, and enjoy it not.
They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.