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Success brings many to ruin.
Success brings many to ruin.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
For man is man, and master of his fate.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
A Lyons skin is never cheape.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Great king,
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles read more
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow may be dying.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton
game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
