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Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning.
Learne weeping, and thou shalt laugh gayning.
Good service is a great inchantment.
Good service is a great inchantment.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their
signatures to the very essays they write on the read more
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their
signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of
despising glory.
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
An examin'd enterprize goes on boldly.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Too much of anything is bad.
Too much of anything is bad.
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.]
