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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the read more
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage
eagles produce a peaceful dove.
[Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquilae columbam.]
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
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.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
One swallow does not make spring.
One swallow does not make spring.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
He that pitties another, remembers himselfe.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts
not.
