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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time
without coming to a conclusion is read more
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time
without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
What the devil was he doing in this galley?
[Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
What the devil was he doing in this galley?
[Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and read more
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!
Till then sit read more
All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.