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The post of HONOUR is the post of danger
a
1533
Huon
(EETS) xx.
Where is lyeth grete parelles there lieth grete honour.
1613
Brazen Age
III. 211
The greater dangers threaten The greater is his honour that breaks through.
a
1625
Rule Wife
(1640) IV. i.
I remembered your old Roman axiom, The more the danger, still the more the honour.
1711
Spectator
1 Dec. 1
We consider Human Life as a State of Probation, and Adversity as the Post of Honour in it.
1832
Scottish Proverbs
33
The post of honour is the post of danger.
1905
British Weekly
14 Dec. 1
The Chancellorship of the Exchequer .. is preeminently the post of danger, and therefore the post of honour in the new Government.
honour
;
peril
HOPE deferred makes the heart sick
With allusion to
PROVERBS
xiii, 12 (AV) Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; cf.
c
1395
WYCLIF
Bible
(1850) Proverbs xiii. 13 Hope that is deferrid, tormenteth the soule;
c
1527
J. RASTELL
Calisto & Melebea
A5
V
For long hope to the hart mych troble wyll do.
1557
Sermons
130
V
The hope that is deferred, prolonged, and put of, vexeth the minde.
1733
in
Collections of Connecticut Hist. Society
(1892) IV. 285
As hope deferred makes the heart sick: so I am in long expectation of your answers.
1889
Nether World
II. vii.
There was a heaviness at his heart. Perhaps it came only of hope deferred.
1981
Observer
26 Apr. 14
If hope deferred makes the heart sick, despair is a poor counsellor also.
hope and despair

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