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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
By doing nothing we learne to do ill.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
The first and last frosts are the worst.
The first and last frosts are the worst.
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Who thinks anything of goitre on the Alps?
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
Dull not device by coldness and delay.
They succeed, because they think they can.
They succeed, because they think they can.
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
