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What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Nature drawes more then ten teemes.
Nature drawes more then ten teemes.
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.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
