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Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.
No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.]
No tye can oblige the perfidious.
[No tie can oblige the perfidious.]
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
