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Quem fugias; hostes incurris, dum fugis hostem. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim.

Where, O king, destined to perish, are you directing your unavailing flight? Alas, lost one, you know not whom you flee; you are running upon enemies, whilst you flee from your foe. You fall upon the rock Scylla desiring to avoid the whirlpool Charybdis. PHILLIPPE GAULTIER DE LILLE ("D. Chatillon"). Alexandriad. Bk. V. 298. Found in the Menagiana. Ed. by BERTRAND DE LA MONNOIE. (1715) Source said to be QUINTUS CURTIUS. See ANDREWS-ANtient and Modern Anecdotes. P. 307. (Ed. 1790) (See also HOMER Odyssey. Bk. XII. L. 85. MERCHANT OF VENICE. III. 5)

For all on a razor's edge it stands.
HOMER-Iliad. Bk. X. L. 173. Same use in
HERODOTUS. VI. 11. THEOCRITUS-Idyl.
XXII. 6. THEOGENES. 557.

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Periculosæ plenum opus alex Tractas, et incedis per ignes

Suppositos cineri doloso.

You are dealing with a work full of dangerous hazard, and you are venturing upon fires overlaid with treacherous ashes. HORACE Odes. Bk. II. 1. 6.

The following line (authorship unknown) is sometimes added: "Si morbum fugiens incidis in medicos" In fleeing disease you fall into the hands of the doctors.

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Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis
Cautum est in horas.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour.

HORACE Carmina. II. 13. 13.

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Multos in summa pericula misit

Venturi timor ipse mali.

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

LUCAN-Pharsalia. VII. 104.

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'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed,
Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant,
But over its terrible edge there had slipped
A Duke and full many a peasant,

So the people said something would have to be done,

But their projects did not at all tally.

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Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas,
Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface,
Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas.

O'er the ice the rapid skater flies.

With sport above and death below, Where mischief lurks in gay disguise

Thus lightly touch and quickly go. PIERRE CHARLES ROY. Lines under a picture of skaters, a print of a painting by LANCRET. Trans. by SAMUEL JOHNSON. See Piozzi, Anecdotes.

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Scit eum sine gloria vinci, qui sine periculo vincitur.

He knows that the man is overcome ingloriously, who is overcome without danger. SENECA-De Providentia. III.

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Contemptum periculorum assiduitas periclitandi dabit.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

SENECA-De Providentia. IV.

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Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un.

There is no person who is not dangerous for

some one.

MME. DE SÉVIGNÉ-Lettres.

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For though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I something in me dangerous. Hamlet. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 285.

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Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Henry IV. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 3.

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We have scotched the snake, not killed it:
She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor
malice

Remains in danger of our former tooth.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 13.

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So here hath been dawning
Another blue day;
Think, wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?

Out of eternity

This new day is born, Into eternity

At night will return.
CARLYLE-To-day.

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All comes out even at the end of the day. Quoted by WINSTON CHURCHILL. Speech at the Highbury Athenæum, Nov. 23, 1910. (See also HAWES)

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Dies ira, dies illa!
Solvet sæclum in favilla,
Teste David cum Sybilla.

Day of wrath that day of burning,
Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,
All the world to ashes turning.
Attributed to THOMAS CELANO. See DANIEL
Thesaurus Hymnology. Vol. II. P. 103.
Printed in Missale Romanum. Pavia.
(1491) Trans. by ABRAHAM COLES.
NOLKER, monk of St. Gall (about 880) says
he saw the lines in a book belonging to the
Convent of St. Jumièges. Assigned to
CARDINAL FRANGIPANI ("Malabrancia"),
died, 1294. Also to ST. GREGORY, ST.
BERNARD, CARDINAL ORSINI, AGNOSTINO
BIELLA, HUMBERTUS. See Dublin Review,
No. 39

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After the day there cometh the derke night; For though the day be never so longe, At last the belles ringeth to evensonge. STEPHEN HAWES-Pastime of Pleasure. (1517) As given in Percy Society Ed. Ch. XLII. P. 207. Also in the MASKELL books. British Museum. (1578) An old hymn found among the marginal rhymes of a Book of Prayers of QUEEN ELIZABETH, to accompany illuminations of The Triumph of Death. HAWES probably used the idea found in an old Latin hymn.

Quantumvis cursum longum fessumque moratur Sol, sacro tandem carmine Vesper adest.

English of these lines quoted at the stake by GEORGE TANKERFIELD. (1555) Same in HEYWOOD. Dialogue Concerning English Proverbs. See also FOXE-Acts and Monuments. Vol. VII. P. 346. Ed. 1828

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Well, this is the end of a perfect day,
Near the end of a journey, too;
But it leaves a thought that is big and strong,
With a wish that is kind and true.
For mem'ry has painted this perfect day
With colors that never fade,

And we find at the end of a perfect day,
The soul of a friend we've made.
CARRIE JACOBS-BOND-A Perfect Day.

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Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit. For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night.

On the tombstone of JEAN D'ORBESAN at Padua.

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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. Job. VII. 6.

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