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“Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.”
“What passions cannot music raise or quell?”
“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
“Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade.”
“Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.”
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
“And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.”
“He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
“Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.”
“Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.”
“Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind”
“Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.”
“All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
“אין אנו יודעים אם הנישואים הם אחד משבעת הצווים הקדושים, או אחד משבעת החטאים שעליהם נגזר עונש מיתה.”
“בתחילה אנו עומדים בפני הרגלינו; אחר כך הרגלינו עומדים בפנינו.”
“ניתן לרפא את האהבה על ידי אהבה אחרת.”
“מעולם לא היה פטריוט שלא היה שוטה.”
“הקנאה היא עריץ – עריץ של הנשמה.”
“סירוב בשתיקה מהווה חצי הסכמה.”