That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

I escaped the Thunder, and fell into the Lightning.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.

Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of
the thing.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower read more

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of
bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.