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They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
 Still achieving, still pursuing,
 Learn to labour and to wait.  
 Still achieving, still pursuing,
 Learn to labour and to wait. 
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
A good pay-master starts not at assurances.
 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth 
knowledge increaseth sorrow.  
 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth 
knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
 For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is 
incompossible.  
 For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is 
incompossible. 
 Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
 With a very natural loathing--
  Leaving the sheriff to dream read more 
 Just as the felon condemn'd to die--
 With a very natural loathing--
  Leaving the sheriff to dream of ropes,
   From his gloomy cell in a vision elopes,
    To caper on sunny greens and slopes,
     Instead of the dance upon nothing. 
 You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the 
honesty and intelligence of the members of read more 
 You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the 
honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with 
all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the 
capitalist system lasts, vote for gold. 
 The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing 
Cheapside.]  
 The clown waits for the river to run itself dry. [Crossing 
Cheapside.]