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That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.
That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently
learnt.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
[Lat., Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.]
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
There is a method in man's wickedness:
It grows up by degrees.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang read more
You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.