Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
He who is persevering, gentle, ,and patient, shuns the company of men of cruel conduct, and does no injury ,to living creatures , gains, if he constantly lives in that manner, by controlling his organs and by liberality, heavenly bliss.
Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, And either live with glorious victorie, Or die with fame renown'd for chivalrie He is not worthy of the honey-comb, That shuns the hives because the bees have stings
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety
Therefore-to speak, and to avoid the first,
And then, in speaking, not to incur the last-
Definitively thus I answer you:
Your love deserves my thanks, but my desert
Unmeritable shuns your high request.
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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