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If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
If you could runne, as you drinke, you might catch a hare.
 To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a 
fool.
 [Lat., Cujusvis read more 
 To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a 
fool.
 [Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in 
errore perseverare.] 
 The maxims of men reveal their characters.
 [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]  
 The maxims of men reveal their characters.
 [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] 
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite.  
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite. 
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
 Wouldst thou, or thou,
 Forego what's now,
  For all that hope may say?
   No--joy's read more 
 Wouldst thou, or thou,
 Forego what's now,
  For all that hope may say?
   No--joy's reply,
    From every eye,
     Is, "Live we while we may." 
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart read more 
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart from it. 
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.