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Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
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.]
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.
A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.
A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her.
The goddess was discovered by her gait.
The goddess was discovered by her gait.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
A penny spar'd is twice got.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
