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Modesty should accompany youth.
Modesty should accompany youth.
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
Be firm or mild as the occasion may require.
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
O rare protector of the sheep, a wolf!
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to read more
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
Craft against craft makes no living.
Craft against craft makes no living.
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
One hand washeth another, and both the face.
One hand washeth another, and both the face.
