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Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should
perish by his own craft.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
The strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.
Consider the end.
Consider the end.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!