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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 Catt sees not the mouse ever.
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
If things look badly to-day they may look better tomorrow.
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride,
And sweet reluctant amorous delay.
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like read more
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the
mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about
your fretted roofs.
