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What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
There were no ill language, if it were not ill taken.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
He who wishes to injure another, will soon find a pretext.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
