If that you have a former friend for foe.

If that you have a former friend for foe.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.
[Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis meditantes necem.]

A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
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A man may cry, Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no pore piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple.

I give not gold for mere expectations.

I give not gold for mere expectations.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

Fortune is like glass; she breaks when she is brightest.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.

Praise day at night, and life at the end.

Praise day at night, and life at the end.