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All came from, and will goe to others.
All came from, and will goe to others.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
How the devil is it that fresh features
Have such a charm for us poor human creatures?
The pen is mightier than the sword.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Each day that fate adds to your life, put down as so much gain.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
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Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,
Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
