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Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have
passed!
O that Jupiter would but bring back to me the years that have
passed!
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he
repents himself of time.
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board!
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Idleness ruins the constitution.
Idleness ruins the constitution.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
