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Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Try your skill in gilt first, and then in gold.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
His tact, too, temper'd him from grave to gay,
And taught him when to be reserved or free.
He did not care a button for it.
He did not care a button for it.
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits read more
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
