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A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
God grants strength, beauty, wisdom, honour, and pleasure but withholds rest, so human weariness may draw people back toward the divine.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
The sight of a rainbow makes the speaker's heart leap as it did in childhood and does in manhood, and he asks that it still do so in old age, wishing his days bound each to each by natural piety.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
I urge you not to prize the robe of gold thread; I urge you to prize instead the years of youth. When a flower opens and can be picked, pick it at once; do not wait until, with no flowers left, you break a bare branch.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Taking a shadow that flees pursuit and pursues flight as its figure for courtship, the poem twice concludes in a refrain that women are styled the shadows of men.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.
Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.