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286: The crow wish’d every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.

287: The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock,

288: But of wisdom: no clock can measure.

289: All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.

290: In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

291: When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius, lift up thy head!

293: If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

307: No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings

309: All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap.

336: Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.

337: Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

338: Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.