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For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
For night owls shriek where mounting larks should sing.
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
Experience teaches.
[Lat., Experientia docet.]
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows!
'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.
'Twixt hope and fear, anxiety and anger.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to read more
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
A great fortune enslaves its owner.
