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An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better
able to bear your own.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
He that burnes most shines most.
He that burnes most shines most.
'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
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'Tis gone: a thousand such have slipt
Away from my embraces:
And fallen into the dusty crypt
Of darken'd forms and faces.
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
No one can have all he desires.
No one can have all he desires.
