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No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled read more
No blast of air or fire of sun
Puts out the light whereby we run
With girdled loins our lamplit race,
And each from each takes heart of grace
And spirit till his turn be done.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime
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Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
[Lat., Pares autem vetere proverbio, cum paribus facillime
congregantur.]
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
Ah, savage company; but in the church
With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after read more
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune,
but it is a poor comfort after all.
We are in the same boat.
We are in the same boat.
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.]
If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
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If it be honor in your wars to seem
The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,
You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war: since that to both
It stands in like request?
