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Success brings many to ruin.
Success brings many to ruin.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
The stern delight that warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
Some falls the means are happier to rise.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory
perusal.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Every man's friend is no man's friend.
Night is the mother of Councels.
Night is the mother of Councels.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong
to him.