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Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
Modesty once lost, never returns into favour.
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the read more
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in
horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage
eagles produce a peaceful dove.
[Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;
Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum
Virtus; nee imbellem feroces
Progenerant aquilae columbam.]
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
A white wall is the paper of a foole.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
Ill natures, the more you aske them, the more they stick.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.
Hee that respects not, is not respected.
Hee that respects not, is not respected.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
Faire language grates not the tongue.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.
But this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.