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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
The remedy is worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Do not expect good from another's death.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.
The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
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The mighty pyramids of stone
That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
When nearer seen, and better known,
Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
The Court hath no Almanack.
The Court hath no Almanack.
