Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. The cut worm forgives the plough. Dip him in the river who loves water. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. Bring out number, weight, and measure in a year of dearth. No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. A dead body revenges not injuries. The most sublime act is to set another before you. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. Folly is the cloak of knavery. Shame is Pride’s cloak. Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion. The fox condemns the trap, not himself. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. What is now proved was once only imagin’d. The cistern contains: the fountain overflows. One thought fills immensity. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. The fox provides for himself; but God provides for the lion. He who has suffer’d you to impose on him, knows you. The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. Expect poison from the standing water. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. The weak in courage is strong in cunning. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. If others had not been foolish, we should be so. The soul of sweet delight can never be defil’d. As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. The crow wish’d everything was black, the owl that everything was white. Exuberance is Beauty. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Where man is not, nature is barren. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ’d. Enough! or Too much. https://youtube/watch?v=2j_3Nap8RF4
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