Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

Fear not the future, weep not for the past.

He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]

He burns us by his brightness. [We are vexed at his manifest
superiority.]

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

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.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.

A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.

A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender
mercies of the wicked are cruel.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.