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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.
The faults of his adored escape the notice of the blind admirer.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else read more
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
