One returns to the place one came from.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine In everything we ought to look at the end.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine The strongest passion is fear.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.
Jean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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MitskiMitski I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth There was never one who came into the world with such loving compassion and who entered into all the needs of the people as did the Lord Jesus. And he declares to us, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you he that believeth on me.
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