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What's done cannot be undone.
What's done cannot be undone.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
While I plan, and plan, my hair
Is gray before I know it.
Prevention is better than cure.
Prevention is better than cure.
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be read more
Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
[Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
What an alteration of honour has
Desperate want made!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Weariness
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth
Finds the down pillow hard.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.
