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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
[Lat., Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.]
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
All things require skill, but an appetite.
Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
