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A gift much expected is paid, not given.
A gift much expected is paid, not given.
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched.
Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd
He that has none, must make them or be wretched.
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his
face?
What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his
face?
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Labour with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits read more
Labour with what zeal we will,
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.
Foes, friends, men, women, now are nought to me
But dreams of what has been, no more to be.