Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.

Rare is the union of beauty and modesty.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

A scepter is one thing, and a ladle another.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is
necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is
necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.

Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.

A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.

A man of a great memory without learning hath a rock and a
spindle, and no staffe to spin.