Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
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Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.
[Lat., Medio de fonte leporum
Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.

Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as
possible.

I will be correspondent to command.

I will be correspondent to command.

He will be beloved when he is no more.

He will be beloved when he is no more.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.

Integrity is praised and starves.

Integrity is praised and starves.

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!

Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!

She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them.

She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
And I loved her for having pitied them.