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Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Good hope is often beguiled by her own augury.
Comparisons are odious.
Comparisons are odious.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest
elevation by way of a joke.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different
pursuits.
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different
pursuits.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
Every one who repeats it adds something to the scandal. [The
rolling snow-ball.]
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, read more
The mother endures with greater courage the loss of one out many
children, than she who, in her tears, exclaims, "Thou wast my
only one!"
