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You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.
Falsehoods border on truths.
Falsehoods border on truths.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
It is peculiarly a fool's habit to discern the faults of others,
and to forget his own.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
The very rats
Instinctively had quit it.
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.
Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.