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Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Ill vessels seldome miscarry.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
To make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
In life you lov'd me not, in death you bewaile me.
Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.
Each must drain
His share of pleasure, share of pain.
The mill cannot grind with water that's past.
The mill cannot grind with water that's past.
