The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

The shortest follies are the best.
[Fr., Les plus courtes folies sont les meilleures.]

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

Omittance is no quittance.

Omittance is no quittance.

And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
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And there is a worm in the lonely wood,
That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,
And makes it a sorrow to be.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.