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Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Your thoughts close, and your countenance loose.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
There is more of bitterness than good nature in him.
We frolic while 'tis May.
We frolic while 'tis May.
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.]