We heed no instincts but our own.
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Anand Thakur
We heed no instincts but our own.
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Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.
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Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.
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He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Sensible people find nothing useless.
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We believe no evil till the evil’s done.
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But a rascal of a child (that age is without pity).
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In everything we ought to look at the end.
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Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil’s done.
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From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
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