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Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
Still rolls and to all time shall roll the tumbling flood.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may read more
He that fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day;
For he that runs may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.
Deeper to wound she shuns the fight;
She drops her arms, to gain the field:
Secures her conquest by her flight:
And triumphs when she seems to yield.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
For man may pious texts repeat,
And yet religion have no inward seat.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
