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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
You are judged of by what you possess.
You are judged of by what you possess.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause
for sorrow has arisen.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause
for sorrow has arisen.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
