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We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.
The way is an ill neighbour.
The way is an ill neighbour.
Divine grace was never slow.
Divine grace was never slow.
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
Take away her rewards, and who will ever clasp naked Virtue to
his bosom?
Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.
Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
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We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
