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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!]
Hanging and wiving go by destiny.
Hanging and wiving go by destiny.
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
With what knot shall I bind this Proteus, who is ever shifting
his ground?
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
A Horse made, and a man to make.
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
The eye will have his part.
The eye will have his part.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
