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Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Every sound alarms. [A guilty conscience.]
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Hee that lives well is learned enough.
Hee that lives well is learned enough.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
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.
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe
councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius read more
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe
councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?
