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“Turn about is fair play.”
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“What you don't know can't hurt you.”
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“When in doubt, do nowt.”
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“When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.”
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“When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.”
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“Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.”
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“Who teacheth often learns himself.”
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“You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.”
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“Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.”
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“Eloquence enough, but little wisdom.”
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“One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.”
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“Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.”
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“To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.”
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“A fool's wild speech confounds the wise.”
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“A sinful heart makes feeble hand.”
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“A wilful man maun hae his way.”
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“And quick his colour went and came, As fear and rage alternate rose.”
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“At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay; All Nature's children feel the matin spring Of life reviving, with reviving day.”
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“But ask not thou if happiness be there, If the loud laugh disguise convulsive throe, Or if the brow the heart's true livery wear.”
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“But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove-- By firm resolve to conquer love!”
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“But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke, Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.”
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“But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly Expression found its home.”
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“But shepherds know How hot the mid-day sun shall glow From the mist of morning sky.”
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“But why pursue the common tale? Or wherefore show how knights prevail, When ladies dare to hear?”
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.”
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