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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
Look you! I myself am nearest to myself.
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.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.
The Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with read more
The Queen, who sat
With lips severely placid felt the knot
Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen
Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.
The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.
The holydays of joy are the vigils of sorrow.
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
The secret wound still lives within the breast.
[Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
He will go back to the old faith he learnt
Beside his mother's knee.
