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Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
The more thou stir it the worse it will be.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About the thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he read more
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that
ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
Omittance is no quittance.
Omittance is no quittance.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
