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They can, who think they can. [Lat., Possunt, quia posse videntur.] - [Positiveness] They succeed, because they think they can. - [Proverbs] This is no time for staring about. - [Proverbs] Time flies never to be recalled. - [Proverbs] To prate of peace, and arm your ironsides. - [Proverbial Phrases] To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud. - [Proverbial Phrases] To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob. - [Proverbial Phrases] Veiling truth in mystery. - [Proverbs] Vice lives and thrives best by concealment. - [Vice] Want of pluck shows want of blood. - [Proverbs] We cannot all do all things. - [Action] We have to thank God for this retirement. - [Proverbs] We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes. - [Proverbs] What will their masters not accomplish when low fellows are so presumptuous? - [Proverbs] When I saw her I as undone. - [Proverbs] When the first is plucked, a second will not be wanting. - [Compensation] Whither art thou rushing to destruction? - [Proverbs] Who can blind lover's eyes? - [Proverbs] Who could tell such a story with dry eyes? - [Proverbs] Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly. - [Proverbs] None but himself can be his parallel. [Lat., Quantum instar in ipso est.] - referring to Caesar, (also found in "The Double Falsehood" by Lewis Theobald) [Character] Call them if you please bookmakers, not authors; range them rather among second-hand dealers than plagiarists. - Claudius Donatus, Delphi edition of "Life of Vergil" [Plagiarism] I wrote these lines; another wears the bays: Thus you for others build your nests, O birds: Thus you for others bear your fleece, O sheep: Thus you for others honey make, O bees: Thus you for others drag the plough, O kine. [Lat., Hos ego versiculos feci, tulit alter honores Sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves: Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis oves: Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes: Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves.] - Claudius Donatus (Delphin ed. of "Life of Vergil", 1830, p. 17) [Plagiarism] I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. [Lat., Parta meae Veneri sunt munera; namque notavi Ipse locum aeriae quo congessere palumbes.] - Eclog. (III, 68) [Gifts] Thus I knew that pups are like dogs, and kids like goats; so I used to compare great things with small. [Lat., Sic canibus catulos similes, sic matribus haedos Noram; sic parvis componere magna solebam.] - Eclogae (I, 23) [Comparison] Displaying page 4 of 10 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10
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