He that feares death lives not.

He that feares death lives not.

The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.

The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined
by too confident a security.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

He can do most who has most power.

He can do most who has most power.

A feeble dart short of its mark.

A feeble dart short of its mark.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.

Something attempted, something done
Has earned a night's repose.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.