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Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
Those things please more, which are more expensive.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Endure the present, and watch for better things.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Demons in act, but gods at least in face.
Demons in act, but gods at least in face.
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor;
And so in ours, some neighboring nation,
Taking advantage of our misery,
Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power,
To beat us down, the which are down already;
And make a conquest of unhappy,
Whereas no glory 's got to overcome.
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
The envious will die, but envy never.
[Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
