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 Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
 [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.]  
 Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many.
 [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo.] 
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies
 There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been 
unfortunate. for it has never been read more 
 There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been 
unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
 [Lat., Nihil infelicius eo, cui nihil unquam evenit adversi, non 
licuit enim illi se experiri.] 
 The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of 
misfortunes.
 [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est read more 
 The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of 
misfortunes.
 [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum 
incommodarum.] 
 Take her up tenderly,
 Lift her with care;
  Fashioned so slenderly,
   Young and so read more 
 Take her up tenderly,
 Lift her with care;
  Fashioned so slenderly,
   Young and so fair! 
 Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
 Fallen from his high estate,
  And welt'ring in his blood;
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 Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
 Fallen from his high estate,
  And welt'ring in his blood;
   Deserted at his utmost need,
    By those his former bounty fed;
     On the bare earth expos'd he lies,
      With not a friend to close his eyes. 
 Such a house broke?
 So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not
  One friend to take read more 
 Such a house broke?
 So noble a master fall'n; all gone, and not
  One friend to take his fortune by the arm
   And go along with him? 
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
 When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
 [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]  
 When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
 [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.]