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What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself
feared?
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
All are presumed good, till they are found in a fault.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle.
Heresie is the school of pride.
Heresie is the school of pride.
