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It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
[Lat., Proprium humani ingenii, est odisse quem laeseris.]
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
To wish to be cured is half way towards cure.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
What we hear strikes the mind with less force than what we see.
Love and life are for to-day.
Love and life are for to-day.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and
what he pleaseth.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
O how full of briars is this working-day world.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
In time the rod
Becomes more mocked than feared.
