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On their own merits modest men are dumb.
On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner read more
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a
Chappell hard by.
[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel
hard by.]
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
The man that heweth over high,
Some chip falleth in his eye.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble
about.
