Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves
What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
What's more to do,
Which would be planted newly with the time,
As calling home our exiled friends abroad
That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
Producing forth the cruel ministers
Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life; this, and what needful else
That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
We will perform in measure, time, and place.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares.
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.
Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
My brain, more busy than the labouring spider,
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
O thou child of many prayers Life hath quicksands life hath snares.
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
When the snares don't hit together, it's just the most awful thing to hear.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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