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Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most
delighted.
None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most
delighted.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
As you sow, so shall you also reap.
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.
Sometimes the best gaine is to lose.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
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The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
