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Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
No lock will hold against the power of gold.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
He that gaines well and spends well, needes no count booke.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Hunger makes dinners, pastime suppers.
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
Greene wood makes a hott fire.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
The truly noble mind has no resentments.
A feeble dart short of its mark.
A feeble dart short of its mark.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
