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True praise rootes and spreedes.
True praise rootes and spreedes.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
Originality provokes originality.
Originality provokes originality.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.
In the morning mountaines, in the evening fountaines.
A woman's general. What should we fear?
A woman's general. What should we fear?
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
[Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
The House shewes the owner.
The House shewes the owner.
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
