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Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm,
but the base and the liar?
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.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Beate the dog before the Lyon.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud read more
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and
our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our
virtues.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
He claims a monopoly in friendship.
He claims a monopoly in friendship.
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of read more
The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from
heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]
