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Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
[Lat., Velox consilium sequitur poenitentia.]
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.
None is a foole alwaies, everyone sometimes.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
No one can have all he desires.
No one can have all he desires.
