Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of
wickedness.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of
wickedness.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non read more

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

Woe to the house where there is no chiding.

No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.

No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.

The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end,
But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?
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The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end,
But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend?
Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light;
So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right read more

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits
beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.