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Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because read more
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.
And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.
And quick his colour went and came,
As fear and rage alternate rose.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
