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Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
No man is a hero to his valet.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de grand homme pour son valet-de-chambre.]
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera read more
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
[Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.]
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure;
Each day of business has its hour of leisure.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
What's done cannot be undone.
What's done cannot be undone.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
Nothing is impossible to industry.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
Every bullet has its billet.
Every bullet has its billet.
