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Ossa on Pelion. - [Proverbial Phrases] Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to be forgotten. - [Proverbs] Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. - [Proverbs] Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. - [Proverbs] Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. - [Proverbs] Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair. - [Proverbs] Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. - [Leisure] Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both. - [Proverbs] Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. - [Proverbs] She half consents who silently denies. - [Courtship] She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does. - [Proverbs] She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above. - [Matrimony] Simplicity is a jewel rarely found. - [Simplicity] Sleep, thou most gentle of the deities. - [Sleep] Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor. - [Sleep] Small minds are captivated by trifles. - [Proverbs] Take time: much may be gained by patience. - [Proverbs] Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.] - [Proverbs] That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow. - [Proverbs] That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting. - [Proverbs] That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo. - [Echo] That which never has been, never is, and never will be. - [Proverbs] That you may be beloved, be amiable. - [Love] That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long. - [Proverbs] The act is judged of by the event. - [Proverbs] Displaying page 4 of 17 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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