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Absence, that common cure of love.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

Fair and softly goes far.

The greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

To be prepared is half the victory.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.