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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy read more
It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why, then we rack the value.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
He that tells a secret is anothers servant.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
At the games end we shall see who gaines.
At the games end we shall see who gaines.
