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Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Handsome features are a silent recommendation.
Handsome features are a silent recommendation.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
He that lives well sees a farre off.
He that lives well sees a farre off.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.
The mind flies back with a grand recoil
From debts not due till to-morrow.
