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In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
Who could be happy and alone or good?
Who could be happy and alone or good?
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.]
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there,
Where most it promises.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have
patience.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
