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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean read more
To pluck the vicious quitch
Of blood and custom wholly out of him,
And make all clean and plant himself afresh.
They will swear black is white.
They will swear black is white.
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks read more
Often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
An angelic boyhood becomes a Satanic old age.
[Lat., Angelicus juvenis senibus satanizat in annis.]
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
A word spoken in due season, how good is it!
When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.
When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
You betray your own failing if you cannot bear with the fault of
a friend.
