The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
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One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

Bad beginnings, bad endings.

For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.

For without transformation
Men become wolves on every slight occasion.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch.

Far from gay cities and the ways of men.

Far from gay cities and the ways of men.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

Honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.