A poem ought to be well made at first, for there is many a one to spoil it afterwards.
More Traditional Proverbs:
The future belongs to him who knows how to waitTraditional
There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.
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Beware the person of one book
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Whose bread one eats, whose word one preaches.
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Noble natures are calm and content.
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He who transplanted sustains. Qui transtulit sustinet
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