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Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy read more
With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those
matters with which I am unacquainted.
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
No mortal man is wise at all times.
More have repented speech then silence.
[More have repented speech than silence.]
More have repented speech then silence.
[More have repented speech than silence.]
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.
A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.