e they all
invented at once.
Who sings in grief procures relief.
Let every one turn himself round, and look at home, and he
will find enough to do.
To be grateful for benefits received is the duty of honest
men--one of the sins that most offendeth God is ingratitude.
Benefits conferred on base-minded people are like drops of
water thrown into the sea.
Retreating is not running away, nor is staying wisdom when
the danger overbalances the hope; and it is the part of wise
men to secure themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not to
venture all upon one throw.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
Necessity urges desperate measures.
SONNET.
Know'st thou, O love, the pangs that I sustain,
Or, cruel, dost thou view those pangs unmov'd?
Or has some hidden cause its influence proved,
By all this sad variety of pain?
Love is a god, then surely he must know,
And knowing, pity wretchedness like mine;
From other hands proceeds the fatal blow--
Is then the deed, unpitying Chloe, thine?
Ah, no! a form so exquisitely fair
A soul so merciless can ne'er enclose.
From Heaven's high will my fate resistless flows,
And I, submissive, must its vengeance bear.
Nought but a miracle my life can save,
And snatch its destined victim from the grave.
The devil is subtle, and lays stumbling-blocks in our way,
over which we fall without knowing how.
In all misfortunes the greatest consolation is a
sympathizing friend.
Riches are but of little avail against the ills inflicted by
the hand of Heaven.
He that buys and denies, his own purse belies.
Till you hedge in the sky, the starlings will fly.
If a painter would be famous in his art, he must endeavor to
copy after the originals of the most excellent masters; the
same rule is also applicable to all the other arts and
sciences which adorn the commonwealth; thus, whoever aspires
to a reputation for prudence and patience, must imitate
Ulysses, in whose person and toils Homer draws a lively
picture of those qualities; so also Virgil, in the
character of AEneas, delineates filial piety, courage, and
martial skill, being representations of not what they really
were, but of what they ought to be, in order to serve as
models of virtue to succeeding generations.
The absent feel and fear every ill.
"I have heard say," quoth Sancho, "'from hell there is no
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