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If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Thoughts shut up want air,
And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Leave not a sword in the hand of an idiot.
Much matter decocted into few words.
Much matter decocted into few words.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
He that hath no hony in his pot, let him have it in his mouth.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
