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Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.
The House shewes the owner.
The House shewes the owner.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
One swallow does not make spring.
One swallow does not make spring.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.