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Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
To be precocious
Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy when misery is at hand.
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he read more
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than
yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare
yourself.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.
Though the power be wanting, the will deserves praise.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.
Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save.
