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Fortune favours the bold.
Fortune favours the bold.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king read more
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
A garden must be lookt unto and drest as the body.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
