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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
Fast bind, fast find--
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
Fast bind, fast find--
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.
But shepherds know
How hot the mid-day sun shall glow
From the mist of morning sky.
She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
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She was one of those who by fortune's boon
Are born, as they say, with a silver spoon
In her mouth, not a wooden ladle.
