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If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be
insulted.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
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.]
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
A sword laid by,
Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
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His golden locks time hath to silver turned,
O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing!
His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned,
But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Know, prudent cautious self-control
Is wisdom's root.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.
