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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification
being deferred.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
They that know one another salute a farre off.
They that know one another salute a farre off.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
As long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
But he, whose humours spurn law's awful yoke,
Must herd with those, by whom law's bonds are broke.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
Every one hath a foole in his sleeve.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
