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Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.
We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
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We have not wings, we cannot soar,
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is proper that every man should measure himself by his own
proportion and standard.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
sad thing to read more
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a
sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
For, wake where'er he may, man wakes to care and coil.
