That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.

That which I just now gave, I recall, and draw back the string.

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

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 trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.

Too much of anything is bad.

Too much of anything is bad.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.

The sonne full and tattered, the daughter empty and fine.

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . read more

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.