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Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Who's to look after the keepers?
Who's to look after the keepers?
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith read more
He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and woman,
For he had lost them both. Lost I those gems,
Though the world's throne stood open in my path,
I would go wandering back into my childhood,
Searching for them with tears.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory read more
It is, I believe, better to restrain the passions of youth by a
sense of shame, and by conciliatory means, than by fear.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.
