Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.

If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.

If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
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What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up,
And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?
No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;
May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be read more

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,
Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to read more

Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.