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How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
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How can man die better,
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of this fathers
And the temples of his gods?
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even
a sparing hand.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
It's a wicked thing to make a dearth ones garner.
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that read more
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife.
[He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
Set good against evill.
[Set good against evil.]
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent
are punished and the wicked escape.]
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
How to conduct yourself properly before your superiors.
