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The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
The generous heart
Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Such a Saint, such an offering.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
Whistle, and she'll come to you.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
There's always a shot in the locker.
There's always a shot in the locker.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
I tell the tale as it was told to me.
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your read more
Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch
sand. [Go not out of your depth.]