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He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
The back-doore robs the house.
The back-doore robs the house.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your
wild oats.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of
Arabia.
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of
Arabia.
