Some evils are cured by contempt.

Some evils are cured by contempt.

Service is no Inheritance.

Service is no Inheritance.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.

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.]

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

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

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

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.

The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own
conscience no guilty man is acquitted.

The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.

The fire i' the flint
Shows not till it be struck.